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1950's French Signed Sanguine Chalk Head Shoulders Portrait of Man
1950's French Signed Sanguine Chalk Head Shoulders Portrait of Man

1950's French Signed Sanguine Chalk Head Shoulders Portrait of Man

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Head and Shoulders Portrait of a Man French School, signed and dated 1957 sanguine chalk/ pastel on paper stuck on board board: 13 x 10.25 inches Provenance: private collection, Pari...

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Materials

Pastel, Chalk

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Red Chalk Study for the Head of a Child, Jean Gigoux Proven
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze Red Chalk Study for the Head of a Child, Jean Gigoux Proven

By Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus, 1725 - Paris, 1805) Study for the Head of a Child Red chalk on paper, unsigned 16 7/8 x 11 3/4 in 43 x 29.7 cm This tender and highly evocative red ...

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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk

French Mid Century Expressionist Portrait Chalk Pastel Drawing
French Mid Century Expressionist Portrait Chalk Pastel Drawing

French Mid Century Expressionist Portrait Chalk Pastel Drawing

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Description: A powerful mid-century expressionist portrait executed in coloured chalk on textured paper. This head-and-shoulders study presents a direct frontal gaze, rendered throu...

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20th Century French School Portrait Paintings

Materials

Chalk, Pastel

“Portrait of a Head”
“Portrait of a Head”

“Portrait of a Head”, Circa 1780

$1,440Sale Price|20% Off

“Portrait of a Head”

Located in Southampton, NY

Late 18th century mixed media portrait of the head of an old man, perhaps the biblical figure Moses.

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1780s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk, Graphite, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Portrait study of a female head, gazing downwards
Portrait study of a female head, gazing downwards

Portrait study of a female head, gazing downwards

Located in Edinburgh, Scotland

Giovanni Battista Vanni (1599-1660), c. 1629 Portrait study of a female head, gazing downwards Black chalk and sanguine on laid paper, within partial red ink framing lines (inscribed...

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1620s Baroque Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Margaret McClean - 1881 Sanguine, Study of a Head
Margaret McClean - 1881 Sanguine, Study of a Head

Margaret McClean - 1881 Sanguine, Study of a Head

By Margaret McClean

Located in Corsham, GB

A sanguine conte study of a head. Presented in a wash line mount and a distressed gilt-effect wooden frame. Signed and dated to the lower-left edge. Pastel Society exhibition label o...

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19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Giacomo Cavedone (1577 – 1660) Head of an Old Man, Old Master Drawing

Giacomo Cavedone (1577 – 1660) Head of an Old Man, Old Master Drawing

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo 1577 – Bologne 1660) Head of an Old Man, probably Saint Joseph Black chalk with white heightening on brown prepared paper 381 × 273 mm (15 × 10¾ in) Unsi...

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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Head with Turban, No. 11  Tête au Turban No. 11 - Female Portrait Turban French
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Head with Turban, No. 11 Tête au Turban No. 11 - Female Portrait Turban French

By Henri Matisse

Located in London, GB

This drawing in chalk is hand signed by the artist ‘H. Matisse’ in the lower left corner. It was executed in 1950. Provenance: Estate of the artist, Nice Victor Waddington Galleri...

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1950s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

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Head of a Bearded Man in Profile, Wearing an Officer's Jacket

Head of a Bearded Man in Profile, Wearing an Officer's Jacket

By Adolf von Menzel

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Circle of Adolph von Menzel (Berlin or Munich, circa 1890) Head of a Bearded Man in Profile, Wearing an Officer's Jacket Black chalk and white chalk on prepared blue paper, 45 × 30....

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Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Italian School, late 16th century Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms Red chalk on laid paper, 21 x 11 cm Provenance: Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923–1997), English a...

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Chalk

Studies of a kneeling female figure, an arm, a hand, and a head in profile
Studies of a kneeling female figure, an arm, a hand, and a head in profile

Studies of a kneeling female figure, an arm, a hand, and a head in profile

By Carlo Maratta (Ancona 1625 - Rome 1713)

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Studio of Carlo Maratti (or Maratta) Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713 Studies of a kneeling female figure, an arm, a hand, and a head in profile Red chalk on paper 43.4 x 26.6 cm Unsigne...

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Victoria Harrison, Beachy Head, Affordable Art, Contemporary Art, Seascape Art
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Victoria Harrison, Beachy Head, Affordable Art, Contemporary Art, Seascape Art

By Victoria Harrison

Located in Deddington, GB

Victoria Harrison Beachy Head Original Painting Acrylic and Acrylic Gloss Varnish on Canvas Board (280g natural cotton duck canvas coated with acid free acrylic gesso) Signed and sta...

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Miriam Haskell Glass Sea Shell Earrings
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By Miriam Haskell

Located in New York, NY

Miriam Haskell summer earrings of chalk white and frosted clear glass, suspended from a chalk white seed bead flower head. 2.25" x 1"

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Vintage 1950s American Dangle Earrings

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Gilt Metal

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By Edward Schmidt

Located in Carmel-by-the-sea, CA

Edward Schmidt is an artist firmly rooted in the academic Beaux-Arts tradition. He was born in Ann Arbor Michigan in 1946, and earned his Bachelor of Art’s degree from Pratt institut...

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18th C Dutch Old Master Drawing Pastel Jacob de Wit Head of a Putto
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18th C Dutch Old Master Drawing Pastel Jacob de Wit Head of a Putto

By Jacob De Wit

Located in Gouda, NL

Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695 – 1754 Amsterdam) A Head of a Putto Black, white, blue and red chalk, grey wash, black ink framing lines, on yellowish paper, partial watermark crowned...

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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oscar (Sitting, Head on Chair), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment
Oscar (Sitting, Head on Chair), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

Oscar (Sitting, Head on Chair), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment

By Howard Tangye

Located in London, GB

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

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Angels Heads: Love is in the Air

By Joshua Reynolds

Located in New York, NY

As compositional inspiration Joshua Reynolds used a red chalk drawing of four cherubic heads by the Italian artist Carlo Maratta (1625-1713), whose drawing skills he admired.

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1840s Romantic Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

18th century Portrait of Playwright William Congreve in a Blue Velvet Jacket.
18th century Portrait of Playwright William Congreve in a Blue Velvet Jacket.

18th century Portrait of Playwright William Congreve in a Blue Velvet Jacket.

Located in London/Yorkshire, GB

His appearance here relates to a white chalk and charcoal head study by Kneller that survives in the Courtauld Collection, which may well have been used to produce this painting.

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Early 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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Drawing, Painting Representing a Child's Head, Chalk Drawing.

Drawing, Painting Representing a Child's Head, Chalk Drawing.

Located in Saint-Ouen, FR

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French 18th Century Chalk/ Stucco Mascaron / Head Ornament
French 18th Century Chalk/ Stucco Mascaron / Head Ornament

French 18th Century Chalk/ Stucco Mascaron / Head Ornament

Located in Buisson, FR

Beautiful weathered chalk/stucco ornament. France circa 1750-1800. Weathered. Measurement includes the wooden base.

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Antique 18th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

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Located in Toledo, OH

Ubaldo Gandolfi "Head Of A Woman" red chalk drawing. 1728- 1781. Signed.

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Antique 18th Century European Gothic Revival Drawings

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Paper

Niccola Santirelli Delegro - French School 1815 Sanguine, Classical Head Study
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Niccola Santirelli Delegro - French School 1815 Sanguine, Classical Head Study

Located in Corsham, GB

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19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Academic Cast Depicting Furietti Centaur Head, Italy 1890
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Located in Milan, IT

Over the wooden black painted base and a column of red marble from Verona is set the lava and chalk cast of the young head of Furietti Centaur.

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Antique 1890s Figurative Sculptures

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By Henri Edmond Cross

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Signed with the artist’s estate stamp, Lugt 1305a lower right Provenance: Bernheim Jeune & Cie, Paris (Folio 81 is 15 studies) Note: This possibly is the preliminary drawing for t...

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Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

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Located in New Orleans, LA

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19th century English chalk drawing on paper of a Lions head

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By William Huggins

Located in Woodbury, CT

William Huggins was born in Liverpool, England on the 13th of May, 1820. His parents were Samuel and Elisabeth Huggins. He took his first drawing lessons from the Liverpool Mechanics...

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1840s Victorian Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Head Portrait Italian School, early 1800's by sanguine chalk drawing on paper, unframed painting: 13.75 x 18 inches Condition report: The painting is in good and sound condition

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Early 19th Century Renaissance Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Head of a Man (recto) Sketch of a Man's Head (verso)
Head of a Man (recto) Sketch of a Man's Head (verso)

Head of a Man (recto) Sketch of a Man's Head (verso)

By William Sommer

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Head of a Man (recto) Sketch of a Man's Head (verso) Ink and black conte crayon, c. 1920 Signed with Estate Stamp "B" lower right Professionally repaired voids along top edge, all fo...

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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk

Portrait of a Man’s Head
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By William Etty

Located in London, GB

Charcoal and white chalk highlight on paper Label of J.M Maas Gallery (verso) 36cm × 28cm (54cm × 43cm framed) Etty, a student of Thomas Lawrence, R.A., was the first significant Br...

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19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

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19thC Head Portrait Young Lady Flowing Hair, Realist Drawing
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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Head Portrait French School, 19th century chalk, charcoal and pencil on paper unframed 17 x 11 inches Finely executed French Realist drawing from the second half of the 19th century.

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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

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Academic Drawing. Study for a Male Head. 19th century. Italian School.
Academic Drawing. Study for a Male Head. 19th century. Italian School.

Academic Drawing. Study for a Male Head. 19th century. Italian School.

Located in Firenze, IT

Academic study of the male head, who with his gaze full of emotion and tense toward the figure of an apostle, or saint, or prophet who is listening. 19th century Drawings on lightly ...

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19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
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Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars

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Located in Cotignac, FR

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American Phrenology head of Fowlers & Wells Phrenological Cabinet New York
American Phrenology head of Fowlers & Wells Phrenological Cabinet New York

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Located in Haarlem, NL

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Oil Paintings, Portraits Circle of Peter Lely (1618 – 1680) Pair.
Oil Paintings, Portraits Circle of Peter Lely (1618 – 1680) Pair.

Oil Paintings, Portraits Circle of Peter Lely (1618 – 1680) Pair.

By (follower of) Peter Lely

Located in Uppingham, GB

With rapidly increasing demand he built up an elaborate studio organization and method by the early 1670s; a pose would be selected from an existing set of numbered postures, he woul...

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Materials

Oil

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Red Chalk Drawing of a Female Head

Red Chalk Drawing of a Female Head

Located in New Orleans, LA

Academy type drawing of a female with turned head. On paper that appears to be from the 18th or early 19c. Presented in an antique 18c. style frame.

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Antique 19th Century Drawings

Scarce & Early Carved & Painted Pine Folk Art Phrenology Head, circa 1850-1860
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Scarce & Early Carved & Painted Pine Folk Art Phrenology Head, circa 1850-1860

Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire

Phrenological heads cast in plaster or ceramic became commonplace adornments in American homes in particular; according to an article in the Boston Christian Examiner in 1834, "Heads...

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Rare Plaster Phrenology Bust Prepared by A.L. Vago, London, circa 1870-1885

By Ambrose Lewis Vago

Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire

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Rare Plaster Phrenology Bust Prepared by A.L. Vago, London, 1869
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Rare Plaster Phrenology Bust Prepared by A.L. Vago, London, 1869

By Ambrose Lewis Vago

Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire

Phrenological heads cast in plaster or ceramic became commonplace adornments in American homes in particular; according to an article in the Boston Christian Examiner in 1834, "Heads...

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Plaster Phrenology Bust by A.L. Vago of Gray's Inn Road, London & Dated to 1883
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Plaster Phrenology Bust by A.L. Vago of Gray's Inn Road, London & Dated to 1883

By Ambrose Lewis Vago

Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire

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Antique 1880s English High Victorian Busts

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Plaster

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Christ Supported by an Angel in the Garden of Gethsemane, On Slate

Located in Stockholm, SE

This evocative Veronese School painting captures the moment in the Garden of Gethsemane when Christ, overwhelmed with sorrow, prays to God before his arrest and crucifixion. Supporte...

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Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Slate

The Adoration Of The Christ Child Fine Renaissance Old Master Painting Large
The Adoration Of The Christ Child Fine Renaissance Old Master Painting Large

The Adoration Of The Christ Child Fine Renaissance Old Master Painting Large

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/School: After Filippo Lippi, Italian 1406-1469. The work is most likely by an English hand, late 19th century Title: The Adoration of the Christ Child Medium: watercolor and...

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19th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Bearded Man in Profile, Red Chalk on Paper, 16th Century, Framed
Bearded Man in Profile, Red Chalk on Paper, 16th Century, Framed

Bearded Man in Profile, Red Chalk on Paper, 16th Century, Framed

By Leonardo da Vinci

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Circle of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – 1519, Clos-Lucé) First half of the 16th century Study of a Bearded Man in Profile, Facing Right Red chalk on paper 8 × 6 cm Unsigned Pr...

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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Laid Paper

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

STUDIO OF RAFFAELLO SANZIO, called RAPHAEL (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520) Title The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist Medium Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black ch...

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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Rembrandt van Rijn - Christ Between His Parents, Returning from the Temple -1820
Rembrandt van Rijn - Christ Between His Parents, Returning from the Temple -1820

Rembrandt van Rijn - Christ Between His Parents, Returning from the Temple -1820

By Rembrandt van Rijn

Located in Dallas, TX

Offered here is a compelling later impression of one of Rembrandt’s most intimate biblical subjects, Christ Between His Parents, Returning from the Temple. Executed originally in 165...

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19th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Paper

Studies for the Judgment of Solomon, a double-sided drawing by Simone Cantarini
Studies for the Judgment of Solomon, a double-sided drawing by Simone Cantarini

Studies for the Judgment of Solomon, a double-sided drawing by Simone Cantarini

Located in PARIS, FR

In this double-sided red chalk study, Simone Cantarini offers us a double reflection on the theme of the Judgment of Solomon. This sheet reveals his precise style and his sense of de...

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1640s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Laid Paper

Italian School, 17th century - Study for the Vision of Saint Anthony
Italian School, 17th century - Study for the Vision of Saint Anthony

Italian School, 17th century - Study for the Vision of Saint Anthony

Located in Paris, Île-de-France

Italian School, 17th century Study for the Vision of Saint Anthony Red chalk on paper 247 x 185 mm Unsigned Provenance Private collection, Paris Collection of Count Alessandro Mag...

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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk

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