Works on paper |
Jan Josefsz van Goyen
Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague
River Landscape with Figures and Cattle in a Ferryboat Approaching a Village
Black chalk and grey wash on paper. Signed with monogram and dated in black chalk, lower right: VG 1653. Inscribed in brown ink in the upper right margin: No=36, inscribed in graphite lower left: 314 and annotated lower right: van goojen.
207 x 303 mm
Jacob Jordaens
1593 - Antwerp - 1678
Homage to the Poet
Red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour on paper; c.1660. The sheet enlarged by the artist on all four sides.
Inscribed above: Sinne beeld / de Poesie ofte den Poet gekroond met / Lauriere door Apollo / Mercurius hem inschenckende den Nektar / ofte den Ambrosiaen / de nimphem hem met sangen vereerende.
205 x 215 mm
Johann Elias Ridinger
1698 Ulm - Augsburg 1767
The Huntsman Content with his Bag
Pen and brush in grey-black, grey-brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk; on paper with a Lily watermark. On the verso rubbed with red chalk for transfer to a copper printing plate.
348 x 432 mm
Jakob Philipp Hackert
1737 Prenzlau - Florence 1807
A Pine near Genzano
Black chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper.
Signed and dated lower left: J. Philipp Hackert f. 1769 in Genzano. Annotated on the verso (by another hand): Charlotte Clive / Bought at Naples of Mr Hacket / 19 March 1787.
542 x 401 mm
Johann Heinrich Füssli / John Henry Fuseli R.A.
1741 Zurich - London 1825
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife
Pencil, watercolour with scratching out, heightened with white, on laid paper; executed in the early 1790s.
172 x 174 mm
Anne-Louis Girodet
1767 Montargis - Paris 1824
Éole déchaîne les vents contre les vaisseaux troyens (Virgile, Énéide, I: 50-91)
Black chalk on paper; executed c.1811.
268 x 358 mm (image); 268 x 410 mm (sheet)
See our current publication: Anne-Louis Girodet -
Two recently discovered drawings
Ernst Fries
Heidelberg 1801 - 1833 Karlsruhe
Path between Trees near Ariccia
Pen and brush in greyish-black ink, sepia wash over pencil. On laid paper watermarked: C & I Honig.
Executed between 1824 and 1827.
Numbered III, 2 in pencil on the verso.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1783 Blåkrog - Copenhagen 1853
View from the Battery towards the City
Pen and black ink, pencil and grey wash on paper.
Signed and dated: Eckersberg fec. 1836 and inscribed on the back: Eckersberg 7 Sept. 1836.
185 x 315 mm
See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 6.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
1770 - Copenhagen - 1844
Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow, after 1810
Black crayon heightened with white on brownish paper. Signed: A [Alberto] Thorvaldsen Fecit.
370 x 430 mm
See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 7
SOLD
Victor Hugo
1802 Besançon - Paris 1885
A Stoneware Jug
Pen and brush and brown ink on laid paper with watermark fragment: J Wha[tman]; executed c.1850. 329 x 248 mm
See our catalogue "Victor Hugo. Visions of a Poet-Draughtsman"
François Bonvin
1817 Paris - Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1887
Homme assis à une table
Black chalk on paper; 1859.
Signed and dated lower left: F. Bonvin (18)59.
370 x 340 mm
Félicien Rops
1833 Namur - Essonnes 1898
Le pendu – Study for La légende d’Ulenspiegel
Black chalk on paper; 1867-9.
Signed lower left: Felicien Rops
380 x 260 mm
Félicien Rops
1833 Namur - Essonnes 1898
À un dîner d’athées [At a Dinner of Atheists]
Graphite and pencil with stomping, brown pastel, heightened with white on prepared paper. Executed c.1879-85. Signed and inscribed at the lower left: F. Rops / 1er dessin; titled at the upper left: A UN DINER D’ATHÉES.
305 x 220 mm
Adolph von Menzel
1815 Breslau - 1905 Berlin
Interior of a Farmhouse Loft
Carpenter’s pencil with stumping and scratching-out, on sturdy, rough-textured paper.
Executed in the second half of the 1870s.
Signed lower right: Ad. Menzel.
238 x 332 mm
Max Klinger
1857 Leipzig - Großjena 1920
Im Park [The Amorous Couple]
Pen, black chalk and ink heightened with white on paper. Signed M.K. and dated lower left (18)87.
416 x 251 mm
SOLD TO THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
Giovanni Boldini
1842 Ferrara - Paris 1931
Bust of Francesco I d’Este, after Bernini
Brown and blue wash on paper; c.1890-1900.
Signed lower right: Boldini
455 x 304 mm
Félix Vallotton
1865 Lausanne - Paris 1925
Portrait de Vuillard (Study for Les cinq peintres)
Pencil on paper; c.1902-03.
Monogrammed lower right: FV and signed by the sitter: Ed. Vuillard.
260 x 200 mm
August Macke
1887 Meschede - 1914 Perthes-les-Hurlus
Street Scene in Tunis. 1914
Pencil on chamois wove paper (from Sketchbook LXIV, p. [e]).
On the verso with the stamp of the artist’s estate (Lugt 1775 b).
285 x 185 mm
Raoul Dufy
1877 Le Havre - Forcalquier 1953
La Danse ou Le Voyage aux îles
Gouache and pencil on paper; executed c.1910.
Bearing the stamp ‛RD BIANCHINI FERIER’ lower right.
1200 x 1150 mm.
Paul Signac
1863 - Paris - 1935
Paris, le Pont des Arts
Pen and sepia ink with wash on paper.
In the lower margin dedicated, dated and signed: meilleures voeux pour 1933 / P. Signac.
105 x 140 mm.
Lovis Corinth
1858 Tapiau, East Prussia - Zandvoort, Netherlands 1925
Still Life of Flowers
Watercolour and gouache on velin. 1923.
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink: Lovis Corinth Mai 1923.
480 x 605 mm
SOLD
Lovis Corinth
1858 Tapiau, East Prussia - Zandvoort, Netherlands 1925
Self-Portrait
Black chalk on wove.
Signed and dated lower right: Januar 1924 Lovis Corinth.
500 x 310 mm
Georg Kolbe
Waldheim 1877 - 1947 Berlin
Kneeling Nude
Pen and brush and light brown sepia ink on firm wove; early 1920s.
Signed with the artist’s monogram lower right in sepia: G K.
494 x345 mm
Jeanne Mammen
1890 - Berlin - 1976
Vor der Theaterkasse (Box Office Queue)
Pen, ink and watercolour over pencil; c.1932.
Signed upper right: J. Mammen.
390 x 345 mm
Alberto Giacometti
1901 Borgonovo – Chur 1966
Étude d’après la tête de la déesse Mut
Pen and black ink on notepaper; 269 x 209 mm
SOLD TO THE STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST, NATIONAL GALLERY OF DENMARK, COPENHAGEN
Henry Moore
1898 Castleford (Yorkshire) – Much Hadham (Hertfordshire) 1986
Ideas for Wood Carving: Three Reclining Figures
Pencil, charcoal, coloured crayon, watercolour, pen, ink and wash on paper.
Signed: Moore lower right and dated: 42.
579 x 459 mm
SOLD
Ben Nicholson
1894 Denham, Bucks. - London 1982
August 27, 1954 (View of St Ives)
Oil wash and pencil on paper, in the artist’s frame, executed on August 27, 1954.
Signed, titled and dated on back of paper: NICHOLSON / St Ives / aug 27 - 54 .
320 x 500 mm
Werner Tübke
1929 Schönebeck – Leipzig 2004
Self-Portrait
Graphite on paper.
Signed and dated: Tübke /1970.
880 x 660 mm