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

Ludolf Backhuysen

1631 Emden, East Frisia - Amsterdam 1708

Sailing Vessels off the Coast in Rough Weather

Pen and brown and black ink with brown and grey wash, over pencil, with a framing line in brown ink, on laid paper. Executed c.1670-80.
Signed lower right in brown ink: L Backh.
163 x 247 mm.

SOLD

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 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

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

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

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

A Greek Temple. Perspective Study

Pen and black ink, grey Indian ink wash over pencil on white paper. Bearing an inscription in the artist’s hand: Solens Straaler falde her vinkelret paa Billedfladen (The light of the sun falls at right angles on the picture plan).
163 x 180 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 1.

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

1783 Blåkrog - Copenhagen 1853

Det lykkelige møde; Parti fra Nyhavn (A Happy Meeting at Nyhavn); 1847

Pen and black ink with gray wash.
Signed lower right: Eckersberg.
245 x 170 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 2

Martinus Rørbye

1803 Drammen - Copenhagen 1848

Grenadier of Prins Christian Frederick Regiment

Watercolor, pen and Indian ink over traces of pencil. Signed and dated lower right:
Rörby 1830. Numbered verso: 8.
240 x 140 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 3

Johan Thomas Lundbye

1818 Kalundborg - Bedsted 1848

Amaryllis

Watercolour, pen and black ink. Signed and dated lower right Lundbye 1842. Inscribed and dated in pen and black ink Amaryllis af 22 Marts 1842.
190 x 150 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 4

Martinus Rørbye

1803 Drammen - Copenhagen 1848

Summer’s Day at Kastelsvolden – The Artist’s Sister Nathalie, Seated on the Entrance Steps

Pen and black ink, grey and brown wash. Monogrammed and dated on the verso:
M.R. ten 5te Juni 1827. Bearing a number 52 in pencil on the verso.
150 x 240 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 5

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.
On the original mount.
370 x 430 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 7

Chrostoffer 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

Johan Thomas Lundbye

1818 Kalundborg - Bedsted 1848

Self-Portrait in Profile, to the Left, 1837

Pencil. Inscribed in pen and brown ink Castellet den 4 Februar 37 and signed in pencil Th. Lundbye lower right.
17.6 x 13.8 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 9 A

Johan Thomas Lundbye

1818 Kalundborg - Bedsted 1848

Self-Portrait Frontal View, Eyes Downcast, 1839

Pen and grey ink over pencil. Inscribed in pen and black ink on the verso EGET PORTRAET FRAN 1839 AF HAM SELF GENGIVET (lit.: self-portrait from 1839 shown of himself). 215 x 170 mm

See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 9 B

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"

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

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

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

SOLD TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA

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

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.

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

Max Liebermann

1847 - Berlin - 1935

Max Liebermann’s Kitchen Garden at Wannsee, View to the South-West

Pastel on paper from a sketchbook, c.1920
Signed in pencil lower left: M Liebermann
230 x 292 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

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

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

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.

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

Sam Francis

1923 San Mateo (California) – Santa Monica 19

Untitled 1965

Acrylic on paper; executed 1965.
550 x 330 mm

Sam Francis

1923 San Mateo, CA - Santa Monica, CA 1994

Untitled, 1980

Acrylic on paper.
Signed and dated on the verso: Sam Francis 1980, numbered: SF80-297, and inscribed: 13 3/4 x 19 1/8".
350 x 485 mm