Works on paper |
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
A Huntsman taking Aim at a Stag
Pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash over black chalk
Signed in pen and brown ink in the lower left margin and dated: Joh: Elias Ridinger inv: et delineavit 1763. 28. 9bris
222 x 360 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
Johann Heinrich Füssli / John Henry Fuseli R.A.
1741 Zurich - London 1825
Woman with a Fantastical Hair Style
Pencil on laid paper.
Inscribed in Greek: παιδολέτειρα (Paidoleteira) and dated: June 4 21. / P. H. [Putney Hill].
132 x 187 mm
Circle of Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
An Empire Candelabrum
Pen and black ink, grey wash over pencil on paper; on the original mount.
Executed c.1810-30.
960 x 610 mm
Anne-Louis Girodet
1767 Montargis - Paris 1824
Portrait de François Pascal Simon Gérard, dit baron Gérard
Black chalk, stomping, heightened with white, on paper; executed in 1789.
Overall diameter: 111 mm
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Two recently discovered drawings
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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)
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Two recently discovered drawings
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
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"
Honoré Daumier
1808 Marseilles - Valmondois 1879
Le Peintre / Portrait de Corot / Portrait présumé de Corot
Pen and black ink on laid paper; executed c.1866-70.
Unsigned.
24.8 x 18.4 cm.
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Édouard Manet
1832 - Paris - 1883
Au Prado II [At the Prado II]
Etching and aquatint printed in black ink on heavy japon paper. Executed 1863 (first state), and 1867 (second state). Signed, in the plate, lower left: Manet. On the verso inscribed by another hand in pencil: Eau forte originale / Au Prado / épreuve sur japon, tirage à 12 exemplaires / Manet.
Plate: 22.5 × 15.6 cm; sheet: 35.0 × 27.2 cm.
Odilon Redon
Bordeaux 1840 - 1916 Paris
Petit arbre germant [Small Tree in Bud]
Graphite on wove paper; executed 1865-97. Monogrammed at the right in pencil: Od. R.
Brushed with fixative, the fixative slightly darkened.
326 x 228 mm
Odilon Redon
Bordeaux 1840 - 1916 Paris
La Terrible / L’ange déchu
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping and erasing, on cream laid paper altered to a golden tone; c.1871.
Signed lower right: ODILON REDON.
425 x 335 mm
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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
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
Vilhelm Hammershøi
1864 - Copenhagen - 1916
A Group of Trees - Landscape on the ‘Kongevejen’ near Gentofte
Black chalk on laid paper. Executed in 1892.
210 x 285 mm
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Hippolyte Petitjean
Mâcon 1854 - 1929 Paris
Falaise en Provence [Coastal Landscape with Cliffs]
Watercolour on paper, laid down on board.
Signed in purple ink at the lower left: hipp Petitjean.
302 x 498 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 inscribed by the artist with the sitter’s name: Ed. Vuillard.
260 x 200 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.
Albert Gleizes
1881 Paris - Avignon 1953
Cirque [Une écuyère de cirque]
Pen and brown ink, white gouache on brown paper, mounted on card; 1914.
Titled Cirque in pen and brown ink, signed and dated Alb. Gl. / 1914 in pencil lower right.
240 x 202 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.
Paul Klee
1879 Münchenbuchsee - Muralto 1940
Heimgartenanlage [Home Garden Plot / Allotment Estate]
Pen and black ink on paper, incised, laid down with dabs of glue on the artist’s mount; 1921.
Signed: Klee lower left, dated upper right: 1921; on the artist’s mount inscribed with the work number: 1921/148 and title: Heimgartenanlage.
Image: 220 x 287 mm; artist’s mount: 340 x 395 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
Édouard Vuillard
1868 Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire) - La Baule 1940
Fleurs (Study for the painting Comtesse Anna de Noailles)
Pastel and lead pencil; executed in 1931.
With the artist’s studio stamp lower right.
210 x 135 mm.
Oskar Kokoschka
1886 Pöchlarn - Villeneuve 1980
Portrait of Mary Meerson
Red chalk on paper. 1931.
Signed lower right: O.Kokoschka.
446 x 311 mm
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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
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
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