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

Sold to the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Pierre Bonnard

1867 Fontenay-aux-Roses – Le Cannet 1947

Nature morte à la table sur une terrasse

Gouache and watercolour over pencil on paper, c.1939.
Stamped lower right with the monogram (Lugt 3887).
175 x 282 mm

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

Jacobus Cornelis Wijnandus, called Ko Cossaar

1874 Amsterdam - The Hague 1966

Portrait of Kees van Dongen

Conté crayon on grey hand-made paper; executed c.1909.
Signed lower right: J. Cossaar and inscribed mon ami Kees van Dongen; countersigned Kees van Dongen lower left. 500 x 327 mm

Honoré Daumier

1808 Marseille - Valmondois 1879

Scène d'une comédie de Molière

Pen and black ink, grey wash on laid paper; unsigned; executed c.1865-70.
Inscribed by Arsène Alexander in pen and brown ink in the lower margin: Recherches de personnages du théâtre de Molière, par H. Daumier, provenant de son atelier de Valmondois, souvenir affectueux d’Arsène Alexandre à son cher ami Coquelin cadet. [Studies of characters from Molière’s comedies, by H. Daumier, from his studio in Valmondois, for my dear friend Coquelin cadet from Arsène Alexandre in affectionate remembrance.]
135 x 160 mm

Jan (Jean) Dedina

1870 Straky - Tatobity 1955

Robert de Montesquiou inspiré par sa Muse

Brown and black ink, with gouache; c.1897.
Signed lower left: J Dedina.
350 x 235 mm

Maurice Denis

1870 Granville - Saint-Germaine-en-Laye 1943

Le Goûter sur la cale - soir / Le goûter au Pouldu

Pen and brown ink, black and grey wash, executed 1899-1900.
Inscribed and signed at the lower right: Dessin p. le catalogue, M. Denis.
198 x 237 mm

Raoul Dufy

1877 Le Havre - Forcalquier 1953

La danse ou le voyage aux îles

Gouache and pencil on paper; executed c.1920.
Bearing the stamp ‛RD / BIANCHINI FÉRIER’ lower right.
1200 x 1150 mm.

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

1783 Blåkrog - Copenhagen 1853

Viewing the Solar Eclipse of 28th July 1851

Pen and black ink, brown wash over pencil on white paper.
Dated and inscribed by the artist 28 Juli 1851. Solformørkelse.
Bearing a number 535 in pencil lower right.
250 x160 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 8

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.

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

Alberto Giacometti

1901 Borgonovo - Chur 1966

La Mère de l’artiste

Pencil on paper, 1948. Signed and dated lower right: A Guttuso Alberto Giacometti 1948. Bearing a personal dedication to the artist Renato Guttuso inscribed Parigi. 1949. 460 x 348 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

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

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

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

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

Adolph von Menzel

1815 Breslau – Berlin 1905

A Sheet of Various Studies, including Two Heads of Men, and Two Studies of Hands, one holding a Fan; with Test Marks of Watercolour (recto) – Various Test Marks of Watercolour (verso)

Carpenter’s pencil and watercolour (recto); watercolour (verso).
Marked with the artist’s estate stamp, in violet ink, upper left center, A. M.
170 x 130 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

Achille-Etna Michallon

1796 - Paris - 1822

View of the Sistine Chapel from the Piazza del Forno, Rome

Brush and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk on Paper. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Signed and dated in brown ink, lower right: Michallon 1819.
22.5 x 28.2 cm.

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

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 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

Hubert Robert

1733 - Paris -1808

Women Washing at the Fountain of the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati

Red chalk on laid paper.
Signed and dated: H. Robert / 1761.
447 x 333 mm

George Romney

1734 Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire - Kendal, Cumbria 1802

Fight between two Classical Warriors on Horseback, watched by three standing Figures in a Cave

Pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash on wove paper.
410 x 549 mm.

Thomas Rowlandson

1756 - London - 1827

The rustic Courtship

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

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, known as 'Goethe-Tischbein'

1751 Haina - Eutin 1829

A Leopard and a Leopardess with Two Cubs at the Entrance to a Cave

Black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, heightened with opaque white, on paper, c.1810-20.
Original mount.
320 x 407 mm

Louis Valtat

1869 Dieppe - Paris 1952

Au Moulin Rouge (recto); Scène de Café (verso)

Pastel (recto), pastel and watercolour (verso) on firm greyish-brown paper; 1895.
646 x 497 mm