Classic Portrait Drawings

A collection of graphite and ink portraits featuring women and a man, showcasing distinct artistic styles and techniques from the 19th century.

Achille Devéria (1800-1857). "Mrs. Hugo". Graphite pencil on layer paper, around 1824. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. Graphite pencil, drawing, French writer, wife, woman, layer paper, portrait

Achille Devéria (1800-1857). "Mrs. Hugo". Graphite pencil on layer paper, around 1824. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. Graphite pencil, drawing, French writer, wife, woman, layer paper, portrait

Portrait, perhaps of Elizabeth Siddal, 1850. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Bust of a Gypsy Girl 1819 Ascribed to Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French. Bust of a Gypsy Girl. Ascribed to Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780-1867 Paris). 1819. Graphite on wove paper. Drawings

Standing man. Leaf 61 Recto from a sketchbook with 105 sheets.

Portrait de Mlle. N. E. Legros (Litho) , Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Sketchbook William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916). Sketchbook, 1872. Graphite and black, red and white Conté crayon on cream and tan medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, 11 7/8 x 9 7/16 x 11/16 in. (30.2 x 24 x 1.7 cm). William Merritt Chases knack for realistic characterization is evident in these deftly executed informal portraits, possibly representing his fellow students at the Royal Academy in Munich. This sketchbook contains numerous other portraits, as well as figure studies from a life class, rendered with different approaches—the linear style seen here and a softer, tonal one used on other pages. American Art 1872

The General Hugo, Mother of Victor Hugo Achille Deveraia (1800-1857). The General Hugo, Mother of Victor Hugo. Silver mine on laminated layer paper on a beige paper sheet. 1829. Paris, Victor Hugo House.

Mounet-Sully, Jean-Sully Mounet dit (n.1841-02-27-D.1916-03-01), Study for the hairstyle of Agrippine. (Faithful title), 1884-03-02. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Etching by Emil Orlik, 1892, depicting a girl wearing a black hood, showing facial features, posture, and clothing details.

Portrait of an unknown woman. .

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 9.5 cm x 16.5 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 Finland

Edith. copy of a painting. Selby & McCauley

Portrait of an unknown woman. .

Young man in a hat; Scholtz, Julius (1825-1893); 1844 (1844-00-00-1844-00-00);Koszalin (West Pomeranian Voivodeship), Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, Scholtz, Hanna (fl. Ca 1912) - Dar, Men's Portraits, German drawings, students

Pencil drawing by Leopold Stolba depicting a lady wearing a hat, showing facial features, attire, and posture.

Portrait of a Young Man mid-19th century Wilhelm von Kügelgen German. Portrait of a Young Man 405477

Head of a Boy, John Phillip (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1817 - 1867)

Bliżej Kultury Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)

Head of a Woman (Theresa Turner). Dimensions: overall: 20.4 x 17.7 cm (8 1/16 x 6 15/16 in.). Medium: graphite on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JOHN FLAXMAN.

Bliżej Kultury Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869 1907)

Portrait of Amélie Beaury-Saurel; Bili Ska-Bohdanowiczowa, Anna (1854-1893); 1889 (1889-00-00-1889-00-00);Bohdanowicz, Antoni (1858-1928), Bohdanowicz, Antoni (1858-1928)-collection, National Council of the Capital City of Warsaw (1944-1990) - collection, female portraits, message (provenance), studies to paintings, collection signs

A pencil drawing with white heightening on gray-blue natural paper by Josef Danhauser depicting a study of wine, a woman, and vocals, focusing on the artist's wife, composition, and gesture.

Pencil drawing by Marie Lippert-Hoerner from 1881 depicting a female head wearing a veil turned to the left, showing facial features and head posture.

Mrs. Sarah Siddons, 1785. Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727-1788). Black chalk with extensive stump work with traces of white gouache; sheet: 46.8 x 35.3 cm (18 7/16 x 13 7/8 in.).

Portrait of Suzanna Jacoba (Coba) Muller, Willem Witsen, c. 1886 print On Verso a detail of fish and aquatic plants (RP-P-OB-25.582). Ewijkshoeve paper etching historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) - BB - woman

Detail from a fresco of Botticelli, face of a young woman, Auguste Danse, After Sandro Botticelli, 1895 print paper etching / drypoint adolescent, young woman, maiden

Self-Portrait. James McNeill Whistler; American, 1834-1903. Date: 1871-1873. Dimensions: 284 x 182 mm. Black chalk with stumping, with touches of white chalk, on brown wove paper laid down on tan board. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Study for Portrait of Boy with Book 1835-1882 England. Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper . Elizabeth Murray

Portrait of a young woman, and Profil, Philip Zilcken, 1887 print paper drypoint historical persons. adolescent, young woman, maiden

Portrait of Saar de Swart. Draughtsman: Jan Veth. Dating: 1874 - 1925. Measurements: h 633 mm × w 474 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Self-portrait: B-1-1, February 16, 1942 drawing Self-portrait of Cor van Teeseling: B-1-1, February 16. Signed self -portrait of Cor van Teeseling three -quarters looking to the left. Weteringschans paper. pencil portrait, self-portrait of draughtsman. historical persons. prisoner in cell or locked place Amsterdam. Weteringschans

Portrait of Helène Lapidoth-Swarth. .

Black and white chalk portrait by Peter von Cornelius of a female torso, turned to the left, on brownish paper, created between 1811 and 1818.

Head of a Young Woman, c. 1880, Sketchbook 1992.51.9.a-sss, graphite on wove paper, overall: 23.7 x 15.2 cm (9 5/16 x 6 in.), Chappuis 1973, no. 609, Paul Cézanne (artist) French, 1839 - 1906

Pompeo Batonis drawing of a young womans head turned to the right, with a cloth wrapped around her hair, executed in chalk with white heightening on blue paper.

Head of a Woman, plate I. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen; French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923. Date: 1898. Dimensions: 227 × 150 mm (image/plate); 312 × 226 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint from a zinc plate in bistre on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Portrait of a mother. Waliszewski, Zygmunt (1897-1936), draughtsman, cartoonist

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadows portrait of a woman, drawn between 1824 and 1826, uses black chalk with white chalk highlights on light brown paper.

Fumette's bent head. Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903). 1859. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Half-length portrait of a lady by Anton Graff, possibly Johanna Dorothea Stock, drawn in black chalk on brownish paper with white highlights, focusing on facial features and upper body.

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Sketch of the bust of a young woman unknown

Gwen John, Self Portrait, probably 1907 1909 Gwen John (British, 1876 - 1939 ), Self-Portrait, probably 1907/1909, black chalk on laid paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art 1991.133.1

Adelaide Napier. Artist: Olin Levi Warner (American, West Suffield, Connecticut 1844-1896 New York). Dimensions: 10 11/16 x 7 1/2 in. (27.1 x 19.1 cm). Date: 1882. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of Jacoba Petronella Nevis van Schooten, Anthonie van den Bos, 1773 - 1838, draughtsman: Anthonie van den Bos, 1773 - 1838, paper, brush, h 127 mm × w 98 mm

Luca Ciamberlano, Print from Drawing Book, c 1610 1620 Print from Drawing Book

Pierre Auguste Béclard. Line engraving by Leroux, 1826.

Self-portrait of J.H. Cooler. .

Portrait of an Old Woman with a Hat, print maker: Gesina Dake, (signed by artist), 1892, paper, etching, drypoint, h 147 mm × w 118 mm

Sartori, happy.

Portrait of Beauharnais Eugène, Bonaparte camp help. André Duterere (1753-1842). Portrait of Beauharnais Eugene, Bonaparte Camp Help. Etching.

Portrait of an artist, print maker: Johan Coenraad Hamburger, publisher: Johannes Christoffel van Kesteren, print maker: Netherlands, publisher: Amsterdam, 1842 - 1843, paper, h 70 mm × w 57 mm

'Study of a Woman's Head'. France, 1710s. Dimensions: 33x23 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: ANTOINE WATTEAU. Rubens, Peter Paul (Pietro Pauolo) (after).

Artist: Elkanah Tisdale, American, 1768-1835, Faith Trumbull (daughter of Gov. John Trumbull, Jr.; wife of Daniel Wadsworth ofHartford), Graphite and watercolor on paper, 19.4 × 14.6 cm (7 5/8 × 5 3/4in.), Made in United States, American, 18thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 23 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 Finland

Lutetia. Lutetia was the name of a Roman city in Gaul. This formed the basis for the current Paris.

Portrait Head of a Woman, 1800s. Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904). Graphite; sheet: 24 x 21.1 cm (9 7/16 x 8 5/16 in.).

A man of a young woman; Thoma, Hans (1839-1924); 1865-1890 (1865-00-00-1890-00-00);

Untitled frontal head and sketched in bust and hands of girl. Artist: Emma H. Bacon, American, 1848-1942, Art School Certificate of Completion, 1885

Hannl, Maximilian .

Portrait of a little girl, sketch. Pankiewicz, Józef (1866-1940), painter

Coronation of Edward VII Portrait: Helen, Duchess ofAlbany. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Bust woman study, circa 1838-1840 Constantin Ernest Adolphe Hyacinthe Guys (1802-1892), draftsman and French painter. Study of woman in bust. Chinese ink lavis. 1838-1840.

Women's head study (MCB 35) Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898). Women's head study (MCB 35). Blue pencil on paper glued right on cardboard.

Portret Aleksandry z Lubomirskich Stanisławowej Potockiej. unknown, painter

Portrait of Pomare IV, Queen of Tahiti

Portrait of a young woman with pipe curls, to the left. Draughtsman: Johan Hendrik Koelman. Dating: 1839. Measurements: h 174 mm × w 105 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Red chalk drawing by Edward Burne-Jones depicting a sitting young woman in a long dress, 1864.

Portrait of Mrs. de Wed. Van de Wall, Jan Adam Kruseman, 1814 - 1862 drawing paper. chalk historical persons

Costa, Paolo.

Sitting woman in a room, Henk Henriët, 1928 drawing paper. chalk sitting on an elevation - AA - female human figure. interior of the house. heating stove

Enckell, Magnus, work, Sketch book, (1000 - 2010), 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.

Bust of Minerva ca. 1798 Louis Léopold Boilly French This study of a bust of Minerva set into a niche is related to Reunion of Artists, Boillys famous group portrait of contemporary artists, sculptors, and architects gathered in the studio of Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767-1855). The bust was part of a stylish up-to-the-minute décor designed by Charles Percier (French, 1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (French, 1762-1853), the leading architects of the period. In the finished painting they stand together, admiring a drawing just below the oversized statue.. Bust of Minerva 387526

Suzanna Rose. Dated: 1875. Medium: etching and drypoint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: PAUL ADOLPHE RAJON.

George Knapton, 1698-1778, British, Portrait of a Young Man, undated. Red chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Bust of Angelique Mongez 1806 France. Charcoal on off-white laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper . Jacques Louis David

Bust of a young woman.

Head of a Young Woman. Dimensions: overall (approximate): 33.8 x 24 cm (13 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.). Medium: graphite. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim.

Portrait of Berthe Morisot, 1872. Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883). Lithograph;

John T. Smyth, 1819-1851, British, E. M. Ward, undated. Engraving.

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 8.5 cm x 12.5 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 Finland

Reproduction of drawing: Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902), Study young woman’s head ; from: `Tygodnik Ilustrowany` 1890, no. 14 (April 5th), p. 212. unknown, photographer, Husnik & Häusler (Praga ; zakład reprograficzny ; 1888-1936), reproduction atelier, Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisher

Green women in a shower cap; Koska, Ferdinand (1808-1862); 1828-1862 (1828-00-00-1862-00-00);

Judith, Nicolaas van der Waay, After Cristofano Allori, 1884 drawing Signed for a detail from Judith's painting with the head of Holofernes. paper. ink. pencil pen the book of Judith

Head of a boy with long hair, Moses ter Borch, c. 1661, draughtsman: Moses ter Borch, Zwolle, c. 1661, paper, h 92 mm × w 71 mm

Wifes portrait; verso: sketches of figures in capes. Rembowski, Jan (1879-1923), draughtsman, cartoonist

Portrait of the Queen Mother Emma, hand working. Draughtsman: Jan Veth. Dating: 1874 - 1925. Measurements: h 456 mm × w 291 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Study for Female Portrait 1835-1882 England. Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper . Elizabeth Murray

Studies of Two Women's Heads, John Russell, 1745-1806, British, after Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723-1792, British, undated, Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper, Sheet: 11 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches (28.9 x 34.9 cm), boys, figure study, heads, studies, women

Head of a woman with hat, used to the right, Stefano della Bella, 1620 - 1664 print print maker: Francepublisher: ParisFrance paper etching adult woman. head-gear: hat. head (human) (+ three-quarter view)

Self-Portrait; Charles Samuel Keene (English, 1823 - 1891); England; about 1845; Pen and brown ink over black chalk; 24.1 x 27.9 cm (9 1,2 x 11 in.)

Augustus Kestner Se Ipsum Fecit, Self -portrait of August Kestner, German diplomat and art collector, After, August Kestner -, Artist, Unknown,

Album of Mexican and French cartes-de-visite, between 1861-1880

Sketch of Woman's Head, Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849 - 1909, Graphite on tracing paper, Woman's head, with classical features. Seen from the front, turned slightly to the left., USA, ca. 1895, figures, Drawing, Drawing

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