Historical Sketches of Life

A collection of pencil drawings depicting figures in various historical contexts, showcasing emotions, gestures, and interactions among people in domestic and public scenes.

Kitchen interior with family, Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836 - 1896, Kitchen interior with fishing family. Verso: interior with family., draughtsman: Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836 - 1896, paper, h 169 mm × w 194 mm

Destroyed Peuter, Bernhard Schreuder, After Rembrandt van Rijn, 1767 - 1780 print A woman lifts a screaming and opposing child. A man keeps the door open for her. Behind her two other children. Netherlands paper etching mother and baby or young child. childhood sorrows

Pencil sketches by Anton Romako depicting people in court clothes, showing posture, gestures, clothing details, and composition.

A pencil drawing by Carl Müller showing a group of peasants walking to the left across a landscape, emphasizing posture and movement.

Interior with Figures before a Fireplace 1871 Charles Baugniet Belgian. Interior with Figures before a Fireplace 335888

Auguste Lepère, Departure for Greenwich (Depart pour Greenwich), 1891 Departure for Greenwich (Depart pour Greenwich)

A pencil drawing by Auguste Raffet from 1837 depicting a group of women sitting on the deck of a ship.

Nathan Admonishing David 1650-55 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch. Nathan Admonishing David. Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam). 1650-55. Pen and brown ink, heightened with white gouache. Drawings

Kitchen interior with family, Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836 - 1896, Kitchen interior with fishing family. Verso: interior with family., draughtsman: Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836 - 1896, paper, h 169 mm × w 194 mm

Study sheet, including with a nursing mother, c. 1840 - c. 1860 Also studies of women and a kneeling man or boy by hand against the forehead. Page 5 Verso from a sketchbook with 38 sheets. Low Countries paper. pencil feeding a baby. kneeling figure

Study of woman with children. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Study of woman with children. Drawing, around 1872. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.

Couple in Watteau courtship (); Raynefeld, Józef (1908-1940); 1930-1940 (1930-00-00-1940-00-00);

A humorous watercolor and ink drawing by Ernst Juch showing a frog in a glass, a man holding a butte, kneeling in front of a bed, with detailed line work and washes.

Spanische Tänzerin Mariette de Rigardo, Bl. 5. Felsing, Kupferdruckerei (Darmstadt, Monachium, Berlin ; dom wydawniczy, drukarnia ; 1797-1965), publishing house, Slevogt, Max (1868-1932), graphic artist, Cassirer, Bruno (1872-1941), publisher

Sketch sheet with street types, draughtsman: August Allebé, 1848 - 1927, paper, h 130 mm × w 102 mm

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Prison Scene, undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

King and a queen on a throne, behind them is Fama, Anonymous, After Peter Paul Rubens, after Jean Antoine Watteau, 1700 - 1800 drawing paper. chalk king. queen. Fame; 'Fama', 'Fama buona', 'Fama chiara' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure)

Pencil sketches by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller focusing on multiple subjects and compositional arrangements.

William Sidney Mount, Studies of Figural Groups, 1866 Studies of Figural Groups

A pencil caricature by Josef Danhauser created around 1844, illustrating exaggerated features in a human figure.

Benjamin West, 1738-1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763), Sketch.

Charles Sprague Pearce, Study for a Lunette, 1890 1897 Study for a Lunette

Copy to Salvator Rosa, James Ensor, circa 1880-1890, drawing, Belgian Art

Venus in Vulcan's Forge (recto); Geometry (verso). Hermann Weyer (German, c. 1596-1621); Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546-1611). Date: 1500-1599. Dimensions: 186 x 157 mm. Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash (recto), and pen and gray ink with brush and gray wash heightened with lead white (verso), on ivory laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Cottage Door. James McNeill Whistler; American, 1834-1903. Date: 1885-1886. Dimensions: 66 x 99 mm (image, trimmed within plate mark); 79 x 99 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint in black ink on ivory laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Interior with a man and woman. The man is sitting on a chair and bends to the standing woman. A globe is in the background and a painting is hanging on the wall. Leaf 42 Recto from a sketchbook with 58 sheets.

Two studies of men, three ways of a gentleman and two sketches of a general; on verso, sailor , Sailors, Generals. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings

Street with figures, 1877 - 1932 Page 43 from a sketchbook with 32 sheets. paper. chalk street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Jean Louis Forain, At the Gambling Table (first plate), 1909 At the Gambling Table (first plate)

Passion, Marius Bauer, 1889 print A man in Eastern clothing surrounded by a group of kneeling figures. Left in the background a man at a rigged horse. paper etching contrast between important and unimportant people; the inferior before the superior, the weak before the mighty. kneeling figure. head-gear: turban

Sketch to the painting Mikołaj Kopernik a bust of Nicolaus Copernicus. Sketch to the picture Sons of Władysław Herman two sided drawing Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)

En Visite. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, no date. Prints; etchings. Etching and drypoint

Michel Paul sen. (1877-1938), sketchbook. Watercolors and drawings (approx. 1900): Woman bent over toilet table (whole figure). Pencil on paper, 12.3 x 17.7 cm (including scan edges) Michel Paul sen. (1877-1938): Skizzenbuch. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen

Man in a Nightshirt Reaching for a Bottle Labeled "Fountain of Youth". Artist: J. J. Grandville (French, Nancy 1803-1847 Vanves). Dimensions: sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 in. (30.2 x 23.4 cm)mount: 14 1/2 x 10 11/16 in. (36.8 x 27.2 cm). Date: 1803-47. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A soap. (Title registered) | FANTASIES. (Title of all)

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Women and Children, undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Man smoking a pipe at a table, Leonaert Bramer (attributed to), after Adam Pick, 1642 - 1653, Drawing forms part of an album., draughtsman: Leonaert Bramer, after: Adam Pick, (mentioned on object), 1652 - 1653, paper, h 400 mm × w 280 mm

John Vanderbank, 1694-1739, British, Two Ladies and A Gentleman, 1736. Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Verso - reverse. Tennyson's Locksley Hall - Sketch of Mother and Daughter, 1855-56. Artist: John Everett Millais.. From Preraphaelites.org:. The final wood-engraved illustration for this subject appeared in Moxon's edition of Tennyson's poems (1857, p. 274).

Pencil sketches by Moritz von Schwind for 'On the Danube Bridge' and 'During the Dreaming Hiker', created around 1860.

Anonymous / 'The Adoration of the Shepherds'. XVIII century. Black chalk, Pencil on dark yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Study for .1212 - illustration for Oliver Goldsmiths The Deserted Village (London and New York: 1902). Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Cheerful company, Crispijn van de Passe (I), draughtsman: anonymous, 1599 - 1649, paper, pen, h 92 mm × w 154 mm

Rijn, Rembrandt van, Beggar and beggar woman, coming from behind a hillock, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 97 mm, width 67 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1628 - 1632, second quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, Work conception, after own design by

Court scene (Act II, Scene II, KingLear?). Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Two sketches of a traveler, standing and sitting. Study sheet with two sketches of a traveler, standing and sitting.

Interiors with a woman and a praying figure, 1819 - 1849 Also studies of Koppen. Leaf 50 Verso from a sketchbook with 52 sheets. paper. pencil interior of the house. one person praying. head (human)

Jean Louis Forain, At the Gambling Table (first plate), 1909 At the Gambling Table (first plate)

Study sheet with nine heads.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Old Man Shading His Eyes with His Hand, c 1639 Old Man Shading His Eyes with His Hand

Study of a standing woman with a sitting man; study of a resting artist. Artist: François-Claudius Compte-Calix (French, Lyon 1813-1880 Chazay d'Azergues). Dimensions: sheet: 12 1/2 x 6 11/16 in. (31.7 x 17 cm). Date: 1830-80. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: FRANCOIS-CLAUDIUS COMPTE-CALIX.

The Virgin rising from her seat, is stepping down some steps; in front of her the Child. At left kneels a saint, with a book in her lowered right hand. Above, at left, two cherubim. The background represents a landscape. The floor is decorated. Date: 1820-1850. Graphite, incised lines on paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Dessert, Rembrandt van Rijn (school of), c. 1650 - c. 1660, draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, (school of), Amsterdam, c. 1650 - c. 1660, paper, pen, brush, h 152 mm × w 201 mm

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Figure Composition Study 3, undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Performances with human figures, Marius Bauer, 1877 - 1932 print Leaf with different performances. A walking agricultural worker with a spade on his shoulder, three men's heads and a hand. paper etching farmers. head (human). hand

A pencil drawing by Lucas Stipperger depicting four people including a prisoner in conversation, showing posture and interaction.

Depiction of seven nude figures for a historical scene by August Christoph Kirsch, executed in black-brown Feder with black edging lines, 1783-1785.

Bliżej Kultury Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 1669), H. Kleinmann & Co Haarlem

Sheet of Studies including a Woman Lying Ill in Bed. Dated: c. 1641/1642. Dimensions: plate: 15.4 x 14 cm (6 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.). Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn.

Pencil drawing by Cecil van Haanen studying the interior of a church, showing architectural elements, figure placement, and spatial arrangement.

Antoine Pesne drawing showing Josef in prison, executed in reddish chalk with traces of black chalk and reddish wash, dated 1740.

Two standing men with a seated man, Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782 - 1837, paper, graphite (mineral), h 92 mm × w 135 mm

Sheet of Sketches, Theodor von Holst, 1810-1844, British, undated, Graphite; verso: pen and brown ink and graphite on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 9 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (24.1 × 36.5 cm), Costumes, figure study, literary theme, men, stage, theater, women

Drawing by Jakob Gauermann depicting Joachim, Anna, and Mary, created around 1815 using brown pen and gray pencil on washed paper.

Couple of Mendaints next to a hillock Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt (1606-1669). Beading couple next to a butte (B 165 - 9th state), around 1630.

Some figures and a corpse, Alexander Schaepkens, 1825 - 1899 drawing Study sheet with a few figures above a corpse at the entrance of a church. paper. ink. pencil pen / brush public funeral

Sketch sheet with woman at a crib. Draughtsman: Hendrik Valkenburg. Dating: 1836 - 1896. Measurements: h 233 mm × w 300 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Musicing company in a garden, Gerard Pietersz. van Zijl, c. 1617 - c. 1665 drawing paper. ink pen more than one musician with instrument - CC - 'concert champíªtre'

Episode from the Merciful Samaritan: The wounded man is carried into the inn, Johannes Hendricus Jurres, 1885 - 1922 drawing paper. chalk the Samaritan and the wounded traveller arrive at the inn; the traveller is cared for

Two court ladies and a distinguished woman in mourning dress (Amalia van Solms), Jacob de Gheyn (II), 1625, Two ladies in waiting () one of them holding a bowl of flowers, and a distinguished lady in mourning. An earlier annotation has been deleted., draughtsman: Jacob de Gheyn (II), 1625, paper, h 108 mm × w 83 mm

Birth of Man, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (16.8 x 24.8 cm), birth, children, historical subject, man

Kitchen interior with women, Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836 - 1896, Kitchen interior with women lighting fire. Verso: Interior sketch., draughtsman: Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836 - 1896, paper, h 115 mm × w 134 mm

The old or the time, James Ensor, circa 1880-1890, drawing, Belgian Art

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Sketch of a couple playing a game, surrounded by onlookers, in an interior () - unidentified illustration, Graphite, Board, 22.6 × 28.1 cm (8 7/8 × 11 1/16 in.), Made in United States, American, 19th century, Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors

Figures with a passage. In the background you can see a subsequent room with figures. Leaf 12 Recto from a sketchbook with 36 sheets.

Queen of Edward IV parting with the Duke of York by Order of Richard III Artist's working dates 1747-1785 Italy. Black chalk with touches of red chalk on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper . Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Figure Composition Study 3. Drawing. Graphite on paper. Height: 140 mm (5.51 in); Width: 168 mm (6.61 in). Author: GEORGE ROMNEY.

Figures on the street. .

Pencil sketch by Josef Danhauser from 1842 showing three men playing cards, focusing on gestures and figure arrangement.

Draftsman and spectators. .

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Correction'. Ca. 1797. Red chalk on dark yellow laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Allegory in Honor of Grand Duke Gian-Gastone de'Medici 1700-1799 Italy. Pen and brown ink, with traces of brush and brown ink, over black chalk on ivory laid paper . Pietro Antonio Novelli

Pencil drawing by August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen illustrating a scene from Gil Blas.

La Belle Dame Endormie (The Beautiful Woman Asleep) 1894 James McNeill Whistler American. La Belle Dame Endormie (The Beautiful Woman Asleep) 365026

The toilet , Hairdressing. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs

Ryde Pier , Spectators. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs

Study sheet with fishermen and fishermen women, Philip Sadée, 1847 - 1904 drawing paper. pencil. chalk

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Album Drawing, undated. Graphite and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Caricature of Leo Gestel on his sickbed: Gestel eating at the table together with a woman. .

Figure studies. Figure studies. Page 69 From a sketchbook with 46 sheets manufactured in Amsterdam and Haarlem.

Three Women Washing, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Roman, 1781 - 1835, Graphite on paper, A) The women stand behind a basin. B) Reverse, vertically: A woman is walking towards left, supporting with her right hand the flat tub with the animal's head which she carries upon her head., Italy, 1800-25, Drawing, Drawing

Bliżej Kultury Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)

Three-Tree Farm, 1879. Francis Seymour Haden (British, 1818-1910). Etching;

Bedroom with Saskia in a Canopy Bed, draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam, c. 1638, prepared paper, pen, brush, h 177 mm × w 241 mm

Café Chantant , Cafes, Music halls, Sitting, Thétre des Ambassadeurs Paris, France, Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings

Studies of mothers and children, Christina Chalon, 1771 drawing paper. ink pen

Work orders. Work orders

A pencil drawing by Peter Fendi depicts a milk girl, inspired by a fable from La Fontaine, created around 1828 using squared technique.

Standing men and women, possibly at a stand. A chair in front. Leaf 9 Recto from sketchbook LXVIII with 11 sheets.

Study for On the Way”. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

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