Artistic Sketches

Sketches capturing figures and scenes with loose lines and minimal detail, showcasing the creative process of various artists in early modern eras.

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil, 1824 Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil

Figures at a niche. Page 74 From a sketchbook with 48 sheets.

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Sketchbook Drawing, ca. 1793. Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

A black ink design by Moritz von Schwind depicting a bezel for Gluck's 'Amida' in the Vienna Opera loggias, including architectural and decorative elements.

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil, 1824 Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil

Sketchbook Drawing, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, ca. 1793, Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (14 x 23.5 cm) and Binding: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm), figure study, figures, literary theme, Paradise Lost (published 1667) by John Milton, religious and mythological subject

Sitting and standing figures, possibly artists on the stage. Leaf 5 Recto from sketchbook LXI with 20 sheets.

Sketchbook Drawing, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, ca. 1793, Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (14 x 23.5 cm) and Binding: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm), figure study, figures, literary theme, Paradise Lost (published 1667) by John Milton, religious and mythological subject

Trees and a standing girl with a hat. Leaf 4 Verso from a sketchbook with 43 sheets.

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Children with a Goat and a Dog, undated. Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Study for a Gathering of People, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, undated, Black chalk on medium, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper, Sheet: 10 × 8 1/16 inches (25.4 × 20.5 cm), crowd, figure study, figures, kneeling, religious and mythological subject

Drawing man, feet in shoes and a man with a Chinese straw hat, 1890 - 1922 Leaf 11 Verso from a sketchbook with 11 sheets. paper. chalk drawing. shoes, sandals. head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes). folk costume, regional costume

Pencil sketches by Anton Romako depicting various figures and exploratory compositions.

A Kneeling Man Holding a Staff recto, mid 1550s, charcoal heightened with white on blue laid paper, overall: 23.6 × 34.8 cm (9 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.), Jacopo Tintoretto (artist) Venetian, 1518 or 1519 - 1594

Cecil van Haanen made a pencil study on a church disputa and two heads, showing figures and composition.

Street with a figure on a donkey.Page 9 from a sketchbook with 31 sheets.

Figure Study of Women in Various Sitting and Standing Poses, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige, laid paper, Sheet: 4 7/16 × 6 15/16 inches (11.3 × 17.6 cm)

Interior with a piano playing man, c. 1930 Leaf 8 Verso from a sketchbook with 14 sheets. paper. ink pen interior of the house. keyboard instruments (+ artist at work)

Figures between wings, c. 1915 - 1934 In the background a piano and figures on stage. Leaf 1 Verso from sketchbook XVII with 31 sheets. The Hague paper. pencil the stage and its equipment. grand piano. adult man

Two Sketches of a Seated Male Nude, Rear View, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches (14 x 21.9 cm), figure study, male, nude, seated, sketches, view

Drawing by Rudolf Jettmar depicting the Fall of Phaeton, executed in black chalk around 1932, illustrating the mythological event.

Sketches of a woman. Witkiewicz, Stanisław (1851-1915), draughtsman, cartoonist

Couverture de L'Estampe Originale (Album de clôture) , Sert, Misia, 1872-1950. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings

Kreeften, Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1876 - 1924 drawing paper. chalk crustaceans: lobster

Prinseneelandsgracht, seen from new Teert Gardens. View of the PrinsenealandsGracht with the Sloterdijkerbrug, seen from new tert gardens. In the background Prinseniland. At the front a figure with cargo on a quay. Page 23 and page 24 from a sketchbook with 46 sheets manufactured in Antwerp, Ghent and Amsterdam.

Series of studies by Johann Nepomuk Passini depicting a toddler next to a rocking horse, a mother with a toddler, and a mother with child in front of a mart, executed in pencil in his 1833-1834 sketchbook.

Figures jumping string. Leaf 22 Recto from a sketchbook with 44 sheets.

Figures, possibly walking, 1875 - 1934 Page 28 from sketchbook XLI with 38 pages. The Hague (possibly) paper. chalk walking, hiking (recreation). adult man. adult woman

Standing naked woman, 1887 Also a study of a figure on the squat. Page 16 from a sketchbook with 19 sheets. paper. chalk adult woman. standing figure. the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure. squatting, crouching figure

Two standing figures with caps at a fence. In the foreground possible a third sitting figure. Leaf 7 Verso from a sketchbook with 43 sheets.

Study sheet with figures and a cow. Page 33 and page 34 from a sketchbook with 27 sheets.

The Temptation ofChrist. Artist: George Romney, British, 1734-1802

Bliżej Kultury Stanisławski, Jan (1860 1907)

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Satan Presiding over Hell, undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Study of Bodies "Liberty Leading the People". Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris). Dimensions: 7 5/16 x 13 11/16 in. (18.6 x 34.8 cm). Date: 1830.A priest kneels among corpses as a mob passes in the distance at the upper left. This brush drawing is traditionally thought to represent an episode of street violence in Paris that Eugène Delacroix witnessed during the July Revolution of 1830. As such, it served as raw material for his best-known work: Liberty Leading the People (1830; Musée du Louvre, Paris), exhibited at the Salon the following year. Absent is the allegorical figure of Liberty herself, triumphantly bearing a rifle in her left hand and the tricolor flag in her right. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Effects of Pride or Injustice, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Graphite on medium, smooth cream, wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 inches (14 x 22.9 cm), figures, genre subject

Figure studies. Leaf 5 Recto from sketchbook XXV with 23 sheets.

Seated figures, George Hendrik Breitner, 1881 - 1883 Page 72 from a sketchbook with 42 sheets. North Brabant (Possibly) paper. pencil sitting figure. sitting figure - AA - female human figure

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 10 cm x 17 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 Finland

Two standing figures, possible for a coulisse. Possible artists. Leaf 13 Verso from sketchbook XVIII with 35 sheets.

Figure Studies, 1883 - 1922 Among other things, a woman who walks a dog and children. Page 15 Verso from a sketchbook with 27 magazines. paper. pencil child. walking the dog

Sketchbook of American and Italian Subjects William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905). Sketchbook of American and Italian Subjects, 1855-1856. Sketchbook containing drawings in graphite on wove paper, 4 1/16 x 6 5/8 x 3/8 in. (10.3 x 16.8 x 1 cm). Richards first traveled to Europe in 1855, remaining abroad for a year and spending most of the time in Italy. Like so many artists before him, Richards was overjoyed to be in Florence: I have not as yet realized that I am in Italy that all the dreams of a boyhood are fulfilled.” Richards carried this small sketchbook on a walking tour in the Apennine mountains in October 1855. The carefully drawn vista shown here of the broad valley through which the Arno river winds reminded Richards, always quick to compare American and European landscape scenery, of the view of the Hudson from the Catskill Mountain House. American Art 1855-1856

Image of the personification of the river Rhône in the garden of Versailles, 1920 Page 18 from a sketchbook with 18 magazines. Versailles paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush statues, sculptures in garden. river personified, 'Fiumi' (Ripa). palace. garden pond Castle of Versailles

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Sketchbook Drawing, ca. 1793. Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Studies, 1849 - 1917 Page 18 Verso from a sketchbook with 35 sheets. pencil

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Newton and the Prism, undated. Pen and brown ink; verso: gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Paul Gauguin, Trees; Sketch of Breton Boy (verso), 1884 1888 Trees; Sketch of Breton Boy verso

Figures and women's heads.Leaf 1 recto from a sketchbook with 35 sheets.

Figure Composition Study 18, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (14.9 x 23.2 cm), figure study, genre subject

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Figure Composition Study 4, 1793. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Sitting Indonesian at a doorway. Also a study of a men's head. Page 33 From a sketchbook with 74 sheets.

A black chalk study by Max Slevogt circa 1918 showing a man seated on a branch looking down at another man, created for 'The Magic Flute'.

Enckell, Magnus, work, Exercises, drawing, 24.6 cm x 30.4 cm, 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.

Figures on the beach. Figures on the beach. Leaf 17 Recto from a sketchbook with 21 sheets.

The Temptation of Christ, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Graphite; verso: gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 inches (14.3 x 22.9 cm), amorphous, historical subject, religious and mythological subject, temptation

Two Figures Conversing; "Prophet" Addressing Group; a Man Leaning over a Ledge (from Sketchbook) 1810-20 Thomas Sully American. Two Figures Conversing; "Prophet" Addressing Group; a Man Leaning over a Ledge (from Sketchbook). Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783-1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). American. 1810-20. Wash, graphite, on paper

Dance on the slope of a hill and figures of walking and kneeling peasants, sketches for the paintings Harvest Festival’ and Refugees’. Ruszczyc, Ferdynand (1870-1936), draughtsman, cartoonist

View of a busy street in Amsterdam, after 1894 - 1923 drawing. letter Mainly women with children. On the left a horse. Possibly a shopping street. Verso A letter from the artist Carel Eliza van der Sande Lacoste to Breitner. Amsterdam paper. chalk street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage). horse

Crusaders from a mountain contemplating the city of Jerusalem, Gustave Wappers, 1813 - 1874, Crusaders from a mountain contemplating the city of Jerusalem., draughtsman: Gustave Wappers, 1813 - 1874, paper, h 369 mm × w 542 mm

Woman, Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857-1903, Graphite on wove paper, Two sketches of a female figure., USA, 1881, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Figure studies of adults and children. From: Marine and Marken sketchbook., circa 1870-1871, by Petrus van der Velden. Gift of W. Fergusson Hogg, 1967.

Järnefelt, Eero, Sketch book, ca. 1905-08, pencil and marker, drawing, 15.5 cm x 24 cm, artist : Järnefelt, Eero, ca. 1905-08, pencil and marker, 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.

Figure Composition Study 38. Drawing. Graphite on paper. Height: 114 mm (4.48 in); Width: 168 mm (6.61 in). Author: GEORGE ROMNEY.

Figure sitting on a set table. Also a study of and women's head with hat. Leaf 15 Recto from a sketchbook with 53 sheets.

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Figure Composition Study 43, undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Two standing figures with caps near a fence, 1854 - 1914 In the foreground possibly a third sitting figure. Leaf 7 Verso from a sketchbook with 43 sheets. paper. chalk standing figure. fence, wall, paling

Sketch of Figures in a Circle, Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849 - 1909, Graphite on paper, Group of figures, lower left, inside a circle of dashes., USA, ca. 1895, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, Mother forbids Ainoma to mourn; Original drawing for the series of drawings 'Kalewala, Finsk National-dikt, prättäd i teckningning af R.W.Ekman', 1860, drawing, 33.5 cm x 51 cm

Advertising design for awnings and a dragonfly. The advertising design shows a man and woman standing at a table under a parasol. Leaf 16 Recto from a sketchbook with 33 sheets.

On the Beach. Artist: Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John's, Newfoundland 1858-1924 New York). Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm). Date: ca. 1907-10. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Sheet of sketches of faces andbodies, Graphite on paper (verso of lithograph), 24.5 × 30.5 cm (9 5/8 × 12in.), Made in United States, American, 19thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

Drawing, Allegorical figures; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903); USA; graphite on wove paper; 10 × 16.6 cm (3 15/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

Two diagonally opposite women. Page 4 From a sketchbook with 72 pages.

Study of the Resurrection of Lazarus, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, blued white, laid paper, Sheet: 7 5/8 × 10 9/16 inches (19.4 × 26.8 cm), archway, Christianity, crowd, figure study, figures, miracle, New Testament, religious and mythological subject, the raising of Lazarus ('Lazarus, come out')

Study sheet with figures and cats, George Hendrik Breitner, 1883 - 1885 Page 15 and Page 16 from a sketchbook with 23 magazines. The Hague paper. ink. chalk cat. child. adult woman. adult man

Bliżej Kultury Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)

Egyptian. The man may be on a camel. Page 33 From a sketchbook with 18 sheets.

Drawing, Jews at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900); USA; graphite on gray paper; 12.3 × 20.2 cm (4 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Standing woman at a curtain in a doorway. Leaf 13 Recto from a sketchbook with 30 sheets.

Gamelan orchestra. Page 59 From a sketchbook with 74 sheets.

Drawing, Figures; Harriet Blackstone (American, 1864 - 1939); USA; graphite on paper; 30 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Figure studies of a sitting knight. De Ridder wears a chain capolder and has a sword in his hands. Also a study of a male head with a mallet decline. Page 20 From a sketchbook with 28 sheets.

Bliżej Kultury Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)

Two drawings of women with samisen. Katsushika Hokusai (school of) (飾北斎) (Japan, mid- to late 19th century). 19th century. Drawings. Drawing; ink on paper

Standing figures, 1875 - 1934 Page 13 Recto from sketchbook XXII with 30 sheets. The Hague paper. chalk adult woman (+ standing). adult man (+ standing)

Pencil sketch by Emerich Alexius Swoboda depicting a monument and a coffin with a grieving figure, created in 1892.

Prison Scene, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 3 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (9.5 x 16.5 cm), correctional institution, genre subject, prison

Sketchbook, page 58: Reclining Figure and Figure from behind. Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815-1891). Graphite;

Ruins in the rain, sketches for graphics from the TRAKI series; Romanowicz, Walenty; 1941-1944 (1941-00-00-1944-00-00);

Three composition designs by Alexander Rothaug around 1901 including interior and head studies related to 'Siesta', executed in pencil, ink feather, and color chalk, emphasizing spatial arrangement and figure detail.

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Sketched at the Cockpit, Nottingham, 1801. Pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper.

Various sketches by Alexander Rothaug created circa 1930, combining pencil and spring ink techniques, displaying multiple subjects.

Figure with Lute and Tambourine, with Other Figures: Men Resting, Country Women, Horses, etc., Paul Sandby RA, 1731-1809, British, undated, Graphite on medium, cream laid paper, Sheet: 3 3/8 x 7 inches (8.6 x 17.8 cm), country (rural landscape), figure study, figures, genre subject, horse (animal), lute, men, musical instruments, resting, tambourine, women

Figure studies, George Hendrik Breitner, c. 1886 - 1923 Page 43 and Page 44 from a sketchbook with 39 sheets. Amsterdam paper. pencil adult man. adult woman

Algerijnen.The figures run in different directions, presumably on a road or street. A number of flags can be seen in the background. Page 21 From a sketchbook with 31 sheets.

Collection of pencil sketches by Franz Alt in a sketchbook, created between 1855 and 1867, showing various studies and compositions.

Lying and sitting Indians on a staircase, 1924 - 1925 Page 60 from a sketchbook with 48 sheets. India paper. chalk Asiatic races and peoples: Indians. sitting figure. lying figure. flight of steps

Drawing, Medieval Castle, Two Towers, Figure Studies, near Thun; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900); USA

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