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Sketches of Women: Portraits and Studies

Artistic sketches portraying women in various poses and styles, utilizing soft lines and gentle shading techniques.

Italian boy, the head to the right, draughtsman: Charles Joseph Natoire, (possibly), 1710 - 1777, paper, h 244 mm × w 180 mm
Italian boy, the head to the right, draughtsman: Charles Joseph Natoire, (possibly), 1710 - 1777, paper, h 244 mm × w 180 mm
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Study sheet with head of a boy, seen from above, Gerard ter Borch (II), c. 1633, Possibly a nephew or neighbor's boy., draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (II), Zwolle, c. 15-Dec-1633, paper, brush, h 98 mm × w 80 mmHead of a boy, to the left. .Portrait of a woman. Draughtsman: Richard Roland Holst. Dating: 1897. Measurements: h 233 mm × w 140 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Head of a young man, Anonymous, 1630 - 1700 print Head of a young man with a cloth bound around his head, paves a shadow over his eyes. paper etching youth, adolescent (+ front view)Bust of Man Crowned with Vine Wreath, Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838-1909, Pastel on cream wove paper, The man's head is shown in three-quarter profile, turned toward the left, crowned with leaves., USA, 1875-80, portraits, Drawing, DrawingPortrait of Madame Paul Meurice, née Palmyre Granger ca. 1845-50 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres This large scale study was presumably a preparatory work for a lost or never executed portrait. It depicts the painter's god-daughter, Palmyre Meurice (1819-1874), known to her friends and family as 'Myrette'. Her father, the Neoclassical painter Jean-Pierre Granger, was a close friend of Ingres' and she herself studied art, and would go on to become a renowned musician. She married the writer Paul Meurice in 1843 and counted Charles Baudelaire and Victor Hugo among her close friends.Holding what appears to be a flower, the sitter faces the viewer directly. The frontality of her pose, along with her steady gaze, suggests a mature and accomplished woman. Using a dark graphite, Ingres has gone over the lines repeatedly, establishing the sinuous contours characteristic of his style. Her features are rendered with clarity, in a decidedly more delicate technique.Perrin Stein (July, 2017). PortraitA woman in the end; Herszaft, Adam (1886-1942); 1930s (1930-00-00-1939-00-00);Krystall, Bronisław (1887-1983) - collection, portraits of en face, testamentary record (provenance)Bust of a Woman Wearing a Pince-nez (Wife of the Artist) ca. 1875 Théodule-Augustin Ribot French. Bust of a Woman Wearing a Pince-nez (Wife of the Artist). Théodule-Augustin Ribot (French, Saint-Nicolas-d'Attez 1823-1891 Colombes). ca. 1875. Charcoal on laid paper. DrawingsSimon Fraser, Twelfth Lord Lovat (1667-1747), Richard Cooper the Elder, 1701-1764, British, undated, Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 14 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (37.1 x 26.4 cm), expression, faces, noblemen, portraitKinderkopje. .Tête de Négresse du Hedjaz (Head of a Negress ofHejaz). Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme, French, 1824-1904Stary Highlander; Skoczylas, W Adys Aw (1883-1934); 1911 (1911-00-00-1911-00-00);Portrait of an unknown woman, Johann Baptist Lampi (I), 1761 - 1830 drawing paper. chalk female sex; woman. anonymous historical person portrayed aloneEnckell, Magnus, Sketch book, drawing, Enckell, Magnus, Knut Magnus Enckell 1870 Hamina - 1925 in Stockholm, a Finnish painter. Member of the Septem group of colorist painters. In Finland, Enckell is considered an influential symbolist artist.Portret Zygmunta Krasińskiego jako dziecko. Czacka, Beata z Potockich (fl. 1758-1824), painter, unknown, painterBUSTE VAN MARIA, Louis FABRIUS Dubbourg (POSSIBLY), AFTER Loukiusius Dubbourg, 1660 - 1775 print paper 'portraits' of MaryAn old woman. Bust to the right. She wears a headscarf and points to the right., Old Woman, print maker: Jan Chalon, (mentioned on object), Jan Chalon, (mentioned on object), Northern Netherlands, (possibly), 1748 - 1795, paper, etching, drypoint, h 194 mm × w 156 mmHead of Saint Stephen Study for the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen 1627-1630 Italy. Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk and white oil paint, on brown laid paper, laid down on Japanese paper, edge mounted to off-white wove paper . Jacopo CavedoneSeated Woman. Date: February-May 1885, Nuenen. Dimensions: 31.7 cm x 20.7 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 22 cm x 30 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in FinlandVICTORIA I. REINA DE INGLATERA E IRLANDA. 1819 - 1901. GRABADO RETRATO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.Sketch of a major woman; Before 1945 (1920-00-00-1945-00-00);The interwar period, women's heads, contemporary painting, sketchesPortrait of Aggie Manetti, 1862. Artist: Dante Gabriel RossettiDrawing, Study for portait, Mrs. Timothy Blackstone; Harriet Blackstone (American, 1864 - 1939); USA; pastel crayon on paper; 30.5 × 23 cm (12 in. × 9 1/16 in.)Daughter of William Page (Probably Mary Page). Artist: William Page (1811-1885). Dimensions: Oval: 14 x 12 in. (35.6 x 30.5 cm). Date: ca. 1840. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Järnefelt, Eero, work, Sketch book, approx. 1910, pencil, drawing, 19 cm x 25.5 cm, Järnefelt, Eero, approx. 1910, pencil, Erik 'Eero' Nikolai Järnefelt 1863 - 1937, Finnish painter and art professor. Known for his portraits and landscapes of the area around Koli National Park in Finland.Portrait of Miss S. Dirks. Draughtsman: Jan Veth. Dating: 1888. Measurements: h 202 mm × w 166 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Kari Helgesdatter Vasenden, Granvin. Date/Period: 1843. Blyant på papir. Width: 252 mm. Height: 325 mm. Author: Adolph Tidemand.Drawing, Sketch of a Woman's Face; Francis Augustus Lathrop (American, 1849 - 1909); USA; graphite on tracing paper; 11.7 × 8.5 cm (4 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.); 1914-38-279Page 19 verso from a sketchbook with 24 pages, Portrait of a young woman, draughtsman: Sybrand Altmann, c. Mar-1840, paperA 1900 portrait of a woman by Hermann Heller using pastel, coal, and chalk on brownish paper, showing facial features, posture, and detail.Giuseppe VERDI, 1813-1901 Italian composer, on his deathbed, 25 January 1901, pastel'"Portrait of the Pianist M.K. Benoit"'. Russia, 1887. Dimensions: 30,8x24,3 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Ilya Repin.Zelfportret: B-1-1, mei 1942. Zelfportretten van Cor van Teeseling (series title). Draughtsman: Cor van Teeseling. Dating: May-1942. Place: Weteringschans (Amsterdam). Measurements: h 35.5 cm × w 27.0 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 24 cm x 32 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in FinlandIsabella - Head of Isabella and her brother with Caricature ' Study of old Woman at table and sleeping Dog, 1848-49. Artist: John Everett Millais.. The subject illustrates Keats' poem 'Isabella' or 'The Pot of Basil', derived from a story by Boccaccio.. One of five studies in Birmingham's collection for the painting 'Lorenzo and Isabella' in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1849.. Goldman notes: 'It has been suggested that the central sketch caricatures Rossetti's drawing of 'A Parable of Love' - also in the Birmingham collection.Paolo Farinati, Head of a Boy Head of a BoyWant to burn in a green hat; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932); around 1923 (1923-00-00-1923-00-00);Caps, interwar period, contemporary painting, boys' portraits, purchase (provenance)Franciszek Murko (1859-1910), portrait of a woman; Czernecki, Jan (Wieliczka, Kraków; Publisher; 1905-1939), Anczyc, W Adys Aw Ludwik and Spóka (Kraków; Drukarnia; 1875-1948); around 1908 (1903-00-00-1913-00-00);Male portrait. Kowalski, Leon (1870-1937), graphic artistHucuł Wyczózó Kowski, Leon (1852 1936)Portraits of fellow prisoners. Draughtsman: To Frank-Stoltz. Dating: 24-Mar-1943 - 25-Mar-1943. Place: Ravensbrück. Measurements: h 155 mm × w 150 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Chalon, Jan, work, Reading old man, (1000 - 2003), line etching, graphics, plate width 18.7 cm, plate height 21.9 cmHead of a Woman Artist's working dates 1880-1920 Sweden. Graphite on ivory wove paper . Anders ZornDrawing, Study for portrait; Harriet Blackstone (American, 1864 - 1939); USA; graphite on paper; 25 × 17.7 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)Study Sheet, c. 1870-80. Alfred Dehodencq (French, 1822-1882). Pen and dark brown ink, watercolor with graphite on lightweight wove paper; sheet: 18.5 x 22 cm (7 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.). Alfred Dohodencq was a prolific draftsman, often combining multiple sketches on a single page as seen here. At right, an intimate sketch of a boyperhaps the artist’s sonappears in watercolor, alongside a cavalier drawn in pen and ink. Over the man and his horse, the artist lightly penciled in a face with closed eyes, perhaps reusing the sheet for another composition.Indian woman from Pitayo, Colombia, drawing by Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) from a sketch of the author, Voyage a la Nouvelle Grenade, 1869, by Charles Saffray (1833-1890), from Il Giro del mondo (World Tour), Journal of geography, travel and costumes, Volume IV, Issue 16, September 14, 1876.Bliżej Kultury Verlag Gerlach & Schenk in Vienna (1882 1901)Portrait of Miss D. Mhring. Draughtsman: Jan Veth. Dating: 1874 - 1925. Measurements: h 450 mm × w 360 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Self-Portrait 1775-1789 England. Red chalk on cream laid paper . John FlaxmanWoman with headscarf, in half. .Portrait of Roger Bernard Picart, six months old, draughtsman: Bernard Picart, 1703, paper, h 207 mm × w 150 mm'Self-Portrait'. France, 1900. Dimensions: 12,5x8,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: JEAN LOUIS FORAIN.Head of a Young Man. Date: December 1884-May 1885, Nuenen. Dimensions: 34.6 cm x 21.1 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.Järnefelt, Eero, work, Sketch book, 1906-08, pencil, drawing, 12 cm x 19 cm, Järnefelt, Eero, 1906-08, pencil, Erik 'Eero' Nikolai Järnefelt 1863 - 1937, Finnish painter and art professor. Known for his portraits and landscapes of the area around Koli National Park in Finland.Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879), Prosecutor, pen and ink with watercolor on laid paperArtist's Son Writing, Benjamin West, 1738-1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763), undated, Graphite and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper, Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (13.3 × 10.8 cm) and Mount: 8 × 5 1/4 inches (20.3 × 13.3 cm), boy, figure study, portrait, quill pen, son, writing (processes)Two portraits. Draughtsman: To Frank-Stoltz. Dating: 1943 - 1944. Place: Ravensbrück. Measurements: h 150 mm × w 205 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Head of a Woman by Barocci, Federigo (1528-1612) / Albertina, Vienna / Mannerism / 1568-1569 / Italy, school of Urbino / Black and white chalk, sanguine, pastel / Portrait / 30,1x38,2Head of Jantien Klinker, seen three quarters. Draughtsman: Anthon Gerhard Alexander van Rappard. Dating: in or before c. 1875 - in or before c. 1892. Measurements: h 233 mm × w 167 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Anonymous (Copy Barocci, Federico) / 'Portrait of a young woman wearing a ruff'. Second half of the XVI century. Black chalk, Red chalk on paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.Reading girl with hood, Jan Veth, 1874 - 1925 drawing paper. chalk reading. readingStanisław Fabijański, From a gallery of types. Husnik & Häusler (Praga ; zakład reprograficzny ; 1888-1936), reproduction atelier, Świat (Kraków ; czasopismo ; 1888-1895), publisherFour studies of a woman on a chair, Johannes Löhr, 1892 - 1928 print paper etching sitting figure - AA - female human figure. chairPaul Sérusier, Peasant Girl, After 1888, charcoal and pastel on brown paper.Marie Villasèque, Louis Charles Hora Siccama, 1848 print Utrecht paper. etchingEdelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 12 cm x 18.5 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in FinlandBusts of a Man and a Woman in Exotic Costumes, draughtsman: Guercino, c. 1645 - c. 1655, paper, h 300 mm × w 224 mmPortrait of the illustrator Jacob Cats. Draughtsman: Reinier Vinkeles (I). Dating: 1799. Measurements: h 219 mm × w 168 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Jeune paysanne (Litho) , Peasants, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)Majel G Claflin, Head of Guadalupe, c 1938 Head of GuadalupeRabindranath Tagore or Rabindranath Thakur, aged 16, 7 May 1861 to 7 August 1941, a Bengali philosopher, poet, painter, composer, musician and Brahmo Samaj devotee in India. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedStudy Ch Opki; Rembowski, Jan (1879-1923); 1919 (1919-00-00-1919-00-00);Society of Encouragement of Fine Arts (Warsaw - 1860-1940) - collection, peasants, ethnography, Polish pastels, Poland (culture), portraits, women's portraitsDr Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912), English physician, polar explorer, artist and zoologist, 1916. Artist: UnknownThree Ladies at the Opera, John Copley (Manchester, England, 1875 - 1950) 1917Tito dressed in monk's robes or Titus dressing as St Francis, 1660, by Rembrandt (1606-1669), oil on canvas, 79x67 cm.The Mourning Widow. The grieving widow. Bust of an old woman with a black cloth over the head.From Lithuanian types; Z: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1886, No. 204 (November 27), p. 352; Fa AT, Julian (1853-1929), unknown, weekly Ilustrowany (Warsaw; magazine; 1859-1939); 1886 (1883-00-00-1883-00-00);Main; W Sowicz, Wac Aw (1891-1942); around 1928 (1928-00-00-1928-00-00);Association of Artists Rhythm (Artistic Group- 1922-1932), interwar period, contemporary painting, female portraits, purchase (provenance), wives of artistsRETRATO DE MARUJA (ESPOSA DE PENAGOS) - 1920 - LAPIZ DE PLOMO. Author: RAFAEL PENAGOS (1889-1954). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.Bust of an angel holding a candle. Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869-1907), painter'Margaret, Lady Butts', c1541-1543 (1945). Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger.Mahmoud Medinet Haboo Edwin Howland Blashfield (American, 1848-1936). Mahmoud Medinet Haboo, n.d. Graphite on preprinted graph paper mounted to paperboard, Sheet: 5 5/8 x 3 1/2 in. (14.3 x 8.9 cm). American Art n.d.