Jan de Bisschop

1628 Amsterdam - The Hague 1671

View of the Nymphaeum of Alexander Severus (‘Trophies of Marius’), Rome

Black chalk and brown wash, black ink framing lines; c. 1655-60.
Inscribed in pen and brown ink by the artist: Castrúm aqúae Julija foonte g hod. Falso trophee de Mario.
960 x 156 mm

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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

Louis de Boullogne, the Younger

1654 - Paris - 1733

Standing Male Nude, Study for a Satyr

Black and white chalk on blue paper.
476 x 300 mm

Edme Bouchardon

1698 Chaumont - Paris 1762

Design for a Covered Vase, the Handle Joined to the Lid

Red chalk on laid paper, in its old mount; executed before 1737.
223 by 163 mm

SOLD TO THE STAEDEL MUSEUM, FRANKFURT

Edme Bouchardon

1698 Chaumont - Paris 1762

Design for a Covered Vase, with Gadrooned Body

Red chalk on laid paper, in its old mount; executed before 1737.
223 x 163 mm

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Johann Elias Ridinger

1698 Ulm - Augsburg 1767

The Jump into a Wild Hog Preserve

Pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash over black chalk on paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark. Signed and dated in brown ink in the lower margin: J. E. Ridinger fec. A[ugusta]. V[indelicum]. 1728 Jun: / in Sylva ad vivu[m] delineav[it], titled: Der Einsprung an einem Sau Garten and with a personal dedication: Honoratis: Amico / Dr: Will .
336 x 248 mm

Johann Elias Ridinger

1698 Ulm - Augsburg 1767

A Stag with Flecked Coat

Watercolour over black chalk; on paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark. 1750.
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink in the lower margin: Joh. Elias Ridinger fec: 1750; bearing the inscription: Diser Hirsch ist Anno 1726 in einem eingestelten Jagen in der Wildfuhr bey / Ober Steinbach in der Pfremig, in dem Hohenloischen gefangen worden.
319 x 217 mm

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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 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

Hubert Robert

1733 - Paris - 1808

Two Roman Soldiers Resting in Front of a Ruined Monument

Red chalk on laid paper; executed c.1767.
369 x 289 mm

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

1736 - Paris - 1807

Portrait of a Young Man

Pen and grey ink and wash, with touches of green wash and white heightening.
Signed and dated at the lower left: Aug. St. Aubin inv. 1777.
106 x 79 mm

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Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

1727 Sudbury - London 1788

Wooded Landscape with Figures, Horse and Shed

Black chalk and grey washes, heightened with white; executed in the early 1780s.
Stamped lower right with Earl Spencer’s collectors mark (Lugt 2600).
280 by 355 mm

Thomas Rowlandson

1756 - London - 1827

The rustic Courtship

Pen and grey ink and watercolour.
Executed probably after 1780.
174 x 233 mm

Jakob Philipp Hackert

1737 Prenzlau - San Piero di Careggio 1807

Study of Boulders with Mediterranean Vegetation, near Vietri

Brush with sepia over black chalk on laid paper; on the artist’s mount.
Inscribed and dated at the upper left: a Vietri 1777.
340 x 455 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

François-Louis-Joseph Watteau, called Watteau de Lille

1758 Valenciennes - Lille 1823

Jeune femme assise, la main gauche abritant son front

Black and white chalks on bluish paper with watermark D & C [BLAUW] and grapes; executed between 1785-90.
557 x 393 mm

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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

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

1746 Fuendetodos - Bordeaux 1828

Portrait of the painter Cesar Arbasía

Red chalk on laid paper. Executed c.1798.
Inscribed in red chalk in the lower border: Cesar Arbasia. / Pint.
174 x 126 mm

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Johan Tobias Sergel

1740 - Stockholm - 1814

Un officier Danois constructeur (Frantz Hohlenberg)

Pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper. 1797.
In the lower right numbered with pen and brown ink: 2 and inscribed with pencil: Sergell; on the verso inscribed with pen and brown ink: un Officier Danois Constructeur / qui haissoit les Suedois.
208 x 154 mm

Étienne-Barthélemy Garnier

1759 - Paris - 1849

Horatius Slaying his Sister Camilla after the Defeat of the Curiatii

Black pen and blue and brown wash with white heightening, on beige paper.
525 x 770 mm

SOLD TO THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Jean-Guillaume Moitte

1746 - Paris - 1810

Two Empire style vegetable dishes and covers

a. An Empire style vegetable dish and cover on three paw feet, finished with attaches with swans’ neck

b. An Empire style vegetable dish and cover on three paw feet, finished with lions’ heads

Pen, black ink, with black and gray wash.
282 x 425 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

See our current publication: Anne-Louis Girodet -
Two recently discovered drawings

SOLD TO THE STIFTUNG WEIMARER KLASSIK
UND KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN, WEIMAR

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.

John Martin

1789 Haydon Bridge, Northumberland - Douglas, Isle of Man 1854

The Thames at Twickenham

Watercolour, gouache and graphite with scratching-out on paper; executed in the mid-1840s.
280 x 699 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"

Edgar Degas (after Andrea del Castagno)

1834 - Paris - 1917

Monumento equestre a Niccolò da Tolentino

Graphite on laid paper; executed c.1858-59.
Stamped and with the number that corresponds to the photograph taken during the studio inventory: 1788 ATELIER ED. DEGAS on the reverse (Lugt 657)
145 x 96 mm

Jean-Léon Gérôme

1824 Vesoul - Paris 1904

Head of Apollo

Red chalk on paper, ca. 1862-78.
Signed lower left: JL Gérome, numbered in the lower margin in pen and brown ink: 19.
260 x 163 mm

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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

Adolph von Menzel

1815 Breslau - Berlin 1905

Half-Figure of Lorenzo Cocozza at the Age of 13

Carpenter’s pencil, stumping, on paper. Executed 1882.
Monogrammed upper right: A. M. and inscribed at the lower edge of the sheet 13 Jahr [sic]. Lorenz Cocozza. Ganze Grösse 53 Kopf 7 ½ Händ [sic] 5 ½.
202 x 128 mm

Adolph von Menzel

1815 Breslau - Berlin 1905

Head of a bearded Man

Carpenters pencil with stomping on paper; 1894.
Signed and dated lower right: A. Menzel / 94.
416 x 290 mm

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Berthe Morisot

1841 Bourges - Paris 1895

Jeune fille cueillant des cerises

Red chalk on laid paper with watermark: MB / ARCHES; executed c.1891
558 x 432 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

Félix Vallotton

1865 Lausanne - Paris 1925

La confidence

Black ink on paper; 1894.
Monogrammed lower right: F. V.
180 x 140 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

Kees van Dongen

1877 Delfshaven, near Rotterdam - Monte Carlo 1968

Nu couché aux bas rouges [Reclining Nude with Red Stockings]

Gouache on paper; executed circa 1910.
Signed in the lower centre: van Dongen.
246 x 337 mm

Egon Schiele

1890 Tulln near Vienna - Vienna 1918

Portrait of August Lederer

Charcoal on paper.
Signed and dated Egon Schiele 1918.
464 x 292 mm

Paul Signac

1863 - Paris - 1935

Bayeux, la Cathédrale Notre Dame

Watercolour over pencil with white heightening on beige paper; executed c.1922.
Signed in pencil lower right: P. Signac
280 x 380 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.

Pierre Bonnard

1867 Fontenay-aux-Roses – Le Cannet 1947

Jeune femme à sa toilette

Pencil on paper. Circa 1931.
Signed upper centre: Bonnard
325 x 255 mm

Fernand Léger

1881 Argentan – Gif-sur-Yvette 1955

Composition murale

Gouache over graphite underdrawing on paper; executed 1929.
Initialled and dated lower right: F. L. 29.
350 x 209 mm

Otto Dix

1891 Gera - Singen 1969

Seated Nude with Blond Hair

Black and red chalks heightened with white chalk and gouache on greenish paper; executed 1931.
Signed and dated with red chalk in the upper right: od 1931.
910 x 690 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

Nu allongé, les bras derrière la nuque (Isabel)

Pencil on paper. Signed and dated lower right: Alberto Giacometti 1940. The date possibly added later by the artist.
315 x 483 mm

Richard Müller

1874 Tschirnitz, Bohemia - Dresden 1954

Reclining Female Nude at a Lake’s Edge, Surprised by a Fish

Pencil on hand-made paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Rich. Müller 1944.
500 x 385 mm