Figurative Scenes

Sketches and paintings inspired by stories and characters from literature, conveying emotion and movement among beautifully rendered figures.

Scene from 'Il Pastor Fido' by Guarini. Design for a painting, Design for a room piece: Amaryllis recognizes Myrtillo., draughtsman: Dionys van Nijmegen, 1715 - 1798, paper, brush, pen, h 389 mm × w 254 mm

Scene from 'Il Pastor Fido' by Guarini. Design for a painting, Design for a room piece: Amaryllis recognizes Myrtillo., draughtsman: Dionys van Nijmegen, 1715 - 1798, paper, brush, pen, h 389 mm × w 254 mm

Man with staff and goat legs sitting for a woman, c. 1650 - c. 1799 The man, possibly a satap, leans back. There is a goat next to him. The woman keeps her left hand lifted and points to heaven. A putto flies above her and a temple can be seen in the background. Page 31 from a sketchbook with 72 pages. Italy (possibly) paper. pencil. ink brush satyr(s) (in general). index finger forwards, pointing, indicating. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'

Music and poetry help the artist, Auguste Lepère, c. 1909 print Landscape with the personifications of music and poetry that help a mourning artist. paper color woodcut 'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica'(Ripa). symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ poetry; 'Poesia' (Ripa). artist (in general)

Madame Dugazon in the Opera "Nina, ou La folle par amour" (Nina, or The Woman Maddened by Love). Jean-Francois Janinet (French, 1752-1814); after Claude Hoin (French, 1750-1817). Date: 1787. Dimensions: 315 × 233 mm (image); 430 × 318 mm (plate); 569 × 433 mm (sheet). Wash-manner aquatint in color on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Jean François Janinet.

After Jean Honoré Fragonard, La fiancee du roi de Garbe La chevalier La fiancee du roi de Garbe: La chevalier

Louis Petit after Jean Honoré Fragonard, La fiancee du roi de Garbe L'arbre La fiancee du roi de Garbe: L'arbre

Charles François Adrien Macret and Jacques Couché after Jean Honoré Fragonard, La fuite a dessein, 1783 La fuite a dessein

Bath in the park, a sketch of Panneau intended for Powązki Norblin, Jan Piotr (1745 1830)

Standing woman with vase (in box with 43 drawings) ..

Bathsheba, from A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings Made 1764 England. Publisher John Boydell sought to elevate the stature of British connoisseurship of art and to rival France in the production and trade of prints. This print by William Wynne Ryland is a copy of a drawing by FranÁois Boucher, now in the British Museum, that was once owned by well-known collector William Esdaile.Rylandís studies of crayon-manner engraving in Paris inspired him to develop a simplified version he called stipple engraving, in which a series of dots are punched into a metal plate with a sharp needle tool. Although stipple engraving did not catch on at this time, it gained popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a means to reproduce the varying tonalities of paintings.. Stipple engraving in sanguine on cream laid paper . William Wynne Ryland

Dances of French Polynesia in prints Habit of a young woman of Otaheite dancing Dance in Otaheite. Webber, John, 1751-1793. Prints. 1790 - 1849. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Dance , French Polynesia , Tahiti (Island), Dance , French Polynesia , Raiatea, Dance , French Polynesia , Marquesas Islands, Dance , French Polynesia , Nuka Hiva

Photo production of drawing by Paul Delaroche: La Vierge et l'Enfant Jesus.

Standing Saint, 17th century, Anthonis Sallaert, Belgian, Flemish, c.1580-90 - 1650, 9 15/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25.24 x 19.53 cm) (sheet, oval)19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (50.17 x 40.01 cm) (outer frame), Gouache on laid paper, laid down on a mount, Belgium, 17th century

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Girl with Fan, Facing Left, 1784 Girl with Fan, Facing Left

Artist: Simone Cantarini, Italian, 1612-1648, Rest on the Flight intoEgypt, Etching, 6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (15.6 × 19.7cm), Made in Italy, Italian, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Skating woman, Jacob Gole, After Cornelis Dusart, 1670 - 1724 print A woman skates over the ice, her skirts flutter in the wind. In her hand, she has a sleeve. Behind her a skater and a few figures at a wak. print maker: Amsterdamafter design by: Haarlempublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving skates (winter sports). muff. adult woman

A drawing by Maria Anna Angelika Catharina Kauffmann depicting an autumn allegory with three young women, two holding apples and one with a tambourine, executed in gray feather, gray and brown brush, laved over black chalk with traces of reddish, before 1781.

Louise standing under a linden tree, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1770 - 1775 drawing Design for a print. paper. ink pen / brush specific works of literature

Jacques Couché after Jacques Philippe Caresme, La Petite Therese La Petite Therese

Two Women In A Garden, Abraham Allewaard, 1828 print Two women in a walled garden; On the left a kneeling woman and on the right a woman with spread arms. Haarlem paper etching / engraving cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers

The moderation. Design for a painting.

Young lady at a stone balustrade. A young lady is sitting at a stone balustrade and points to an initial in a tree.

Man gives a woman a kiss; Caffe The und Tobac Zierathen.in a landscape with a rocaille ornament gives a man a junk woman a kiss.

Portrait of Anabella Howard lying against a rock at Water, John Smith (print maker/ publisher), After Gottfried Kneller, 1693 - 1742 print paper historical persons. adolescent, young woman, maiden

Adolescence; Juventus / La Judentud. Portrayal of adolescence. Two young ladies sitting in a garden; The judge plays on a lute, the left has flowers in the lap. A young man is standing next to her and makes her the court. Title in two languages under the show. The scene is caught in an ornament edge.

Woman with ThreeChildren. Artist: Unknown

Edward Francis Burney, 1760-1848, British, Illustration for The New Doll: Sewing Clothes for the Doll, 1825. Pen, brown ink, brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

The fatted calf a prey to wild beasts , Robberies, Crowds. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings

Nicolas Delaunay, Le chiffre d'amour, 1787, etching and engraving on laid paper.

The three theological virtues. .

Ferdinand and Ariel, Mary Hoare, 1753-1820, British, ca. 1781, Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Mount: 13 13/16 x 11 1/4 inches (35.1 x 28.5 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 13 3/4 × 11 1/8 inches (34.9 × 28.3 cm), and Sheet: 13 1/2 × 11 inches (34.3 × 27.9 cm), cloak, clouds, coast, doublet, hearing, island, literary theme, lute, magic, man, music, ocean, plays by William Shakespeare, rocks (landforms), ruff, sash, sea, shipwreck, sound, spirit, The Tempest, Act I, Scene II, The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare, woman

Cheerfulness, Pieter van den Berge, 1675 - 1737 drawing A jumping woman, and face, raised the arms. paper. chalk brush Pleasure, enjoyment, joy; 'Allegrezza da Le Medals', 'Allegrezza, Letitia and Jubilo', 'Diletto', 'pleasure', 'pleasure Honesto' (Ripa) (+ Personification)

Design for an Ornamental Panel 19th century Anonymous, French, 19th century French. Design for an Ornamental Panel 355337

Eduard von Engerth drew amorrettes surrounding love-addicted pages, illustrating Cherubin's love shortage, using gray ink and chalk on paper on canvas.

Woman with lute in landscape, Augustin Taurel, 1838 - 1879 print A woman sits in a landscape next to a building or ruin, she looks down sadly and holds a lute in her hand. paper landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage). lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo

If the age could Stadler, F.X., Rauh B.J., Guérard, Paterno, Antony

Print, A Little Shepherdess; Designed by Alexis Peyrotte (French, 1699-1769); Engraved by Jean Charles Francois (1717-1769); France; hand-colored etching with watercolors on paper; 79.5 x 56.5 cm (31 5/16 x 22 1/4 in. )

The Prince of Orange as toy for Princess Charlotte, 1814; A Dutch Toy !!! - Or, a Pretty Play-Thing for a Young Princess !!!. Cartoon on Willem Frederik George Louis, Prince of Orange-Nassau (later King Willem II), represented as a tab puppet, a toy in the hands of the English princess Charlotte. In his hand, the prince has a flag with inscription 'Orange above'. A fountain in the background. Charlotte broke her engagement with the Prince of Orange in May 1814. Numbered at the top right: 332.

Artist: Jacob de Wit, Dutch, 1695-1754, Allegory of War andPeace, Pen and black ink and brush, 15.7 × 23.3 cm (6 3/16 × 9 3/16in.), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 18thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

Jean François Janinet after Claude Hoin, Nina, ou La Folle par amour (Nina, or The Woman Maddened by Love), 1787 Nina, ou La Folle par amour (Nina, or The Woman Maddened by Love)

Coiffure a la Belle-Poule by Anonymous / Private Collection / 1778 / France / Colour lithograph / Genre,History / Rococo

Jesus Secunda Vice Cadit Sub Cruce Station VII. 1775 - 1800. Remondini family. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Title page for: Andries Kraft, 'Oden and Poems', 1802, Reinier Vinkeles (I), After Jacques Kuyper, 1802 print Title page for Oden and Poems' by Andrein Kraft, with a harp playing woman. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving harp

Fair Emily Artist's working dates 1792-1857 England. Pen and black ink and brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on oval-shaped ivory paper, laid down on laid paper . Henry James Richter

Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of George III, 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Personification of hope. The hope, with her anchor beside him, looks up with folded hands to heaven. In addition to her is a putto. The performance is caught in an ornamental cartouche with fruits, foliage and is crowned by two putti.

Two lovers kiss each other, Ernest Jaime, After Eugène Guérard, 1852 - 1857 print Paris paper (lovers) kissing each other. fashionable woman, 'belle'. dandy, beau

Watercolor and pencil drawing by Johann Heinrich Ramberg depicting three amorette fishermen in reeds observed by two fauns and a bacchant, 1798.

Maaskamp, Evert, Netherlands, Senus, Willem van, Woman on a lounger with putti and a lion, verso - stamped, A woman on a lounger among the clouds surrounded by putti and a lion., print, picture, prints, pictures, height 78 mm, width 99 mm, Dutch, 1773-08 - 1851-01-15, print maker, printmaker, 1783 - 1851, paper, papier, etching, etchings, stippelets, Noord-Nederlands, 1769-09-27 - 1834-01-31, supervisie

Andromeda (Gloria Federici), in chains, plus triangles constellation. Date: 19th century

Allegory of the Faith. Draughtsman: Jacobus Buys. Dating: 1775. Measurements: h 157 mm × w 131 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Woman leaning against a rock wall, Charles Emile Jacque, 1844 print France paper etching adult woman

Design with Dancers in a Cartouche 19th century Anonymous, British, 19th century British. Design with Dancers in a Cartouche 363357

Educating the dog. Bonnet, Louis Marin (1736-1793), graphic artist, Vivares, François (1709-1780), publisher, Parelle, Marc Antoine (fl. ca 1775), painter

Drawing, Winemaking; Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper

Landscape with four girls and a boy. Draughtsman: Alexander Ver Huell. Dating: c. 1854 - c. 1887. Measurements: h 217 mm × w 286 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

TITRE (HALLSTTINE 41) Berchem, Nicolaes Pietersz. Title (Hollstein 41). Etching.

Bliżej Kultury Ferdinand Schenk Verlag für Kunst und Kunstfäwer, Vienna, Wheatley, Francis (1747 1801)

Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis, Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805, after 1771

Claude Hoin, The Love Letter, 1760-1817, watercolor, pen and black ink, and black chalk heightened with white on paper.

Carlotta Grisi by French master, Colour lithograph, 1844, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Museum of Theatre and Music Art,

Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British, One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses", ca. 1784. Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Study of a Seated Woman, Henry Fuseli, 1741-1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766-70; 1779 on), 1791, Graphite, pen, gray ink, gray wash, watercolor, gouache and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm), dresses, genre subject, gloves, necklaces, portrait, shoes, slippers, women

Parijs, Demarteau, Gilles, Boucher, François, Frankrijk, Les poussins, Boerenjongen en meisje met kuikens, Paris, France, recto middle lower - etchings, A boy, kneeling on the ground, and a girl looking at a group of five chicks. An oval frame., print, prints, verso middle - stamped, verso bottom middle - stamped, No. 487, recto bottom right - etchings, Du Porte-Feuille de Mr. Nera, height 232 mm, width 165 mm, Southern Netherlands (before 1775), 1722-01-19 - 1776-07-31, print maker, printmaker, 1756 - 1776, third quarter 18th century, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, crayon method, color printing, French, 1703-09-29 - 1770-05-30, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, South Netherlands (before 1775), publisher

Print, Plate 5, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"; Designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728-1808); Print Maker: Jean-Jacques Avril the Elder (French, 1744 - 1831); France; etching on paper; 42.3 × 29 cm (16 5/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

Winged putti at a banquet. Artist: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise (French, died 1897); Eugène-Pierre Gourdet (French, born Paris, 1820-1889). Date: second half 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Thomas Rowlandson, The Enamoured Sportsman The Enamoured Sportsman

La Toilette de Venus, 1907. Artist: Jean Baptiste Marie Huet

Les Adieux deCalas. Artist: Johann Heinrich Lips, Swiss, 1758-1817

View of a garden pond, a sculpture and garden tools, Dionys van Nijmegen, 1715 - 1798 drawing View of a garden pond with fountain, sculpture of two children and on the forefront garden tools. Design for a painting. paper. ink. watercolor (paint). pencil brush / pen garden. statues, sculptures in garden. garden fountain. garden pond

"Watercolor and pencil design by Franz Xaver Simm for a ceiling image in Hall X of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, created in 1890, showing narrative elements and decorative composition."

Ornament with standing male at seated female, Hendrik Nieuwenhuysen, after anonymous, 1769, draughtsman: Hendrik Nieuwenhuysen, anonymous, 1769, paper, pen, h 84 mm × w 110 mm

Lady with a child and a dog; Kwiatkowski, Teofil (1809-1891); around 1850 (1845-00-00-1855-00-00);Czarnecki, Stefan (1904-), Czarnecki, Stefan (1904-)-collection, gift (provenance), children, costumes, dogs, genre scenes

Design for a ceiling painting with allegory on Zeevaart, Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755 drawing paper. ink. watercolor (paint). pencil brush / pen (decorated) Ceiling. Allegory of trade; "The commertion of the life of human life" (Ripa). 'Navigation' (Ripa)

Allegorical wall painting of summer from the east of the atrium of Regio IX.V.11. She carries a sickle and wheat. Illustration drawn by Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emile Presuhn's "Choix des plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei," Weigel, Leipzig, 1882. German archeologist Presuhn (1844-1881) lived in Italy for eight years and, with Mr. Discanno, made exact copies of many wall paintings that are now lost.

Derancourt, Comme on suit son cours de médicine à Paris (Cours de botanique à Engheim), 19th century, partly hand-colored chromolithograph on wove paper.

Robert Smirke, 1752-1845, British, Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape, undated. Watercolor, pen and red ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige, laid paper, mounted on, thick, smooth, brown, wove paper.

Watercolor with white brush highlights by Johann Heinrich Ramberg depicting Bianca discovering her own portrait in the forest and meeting Fernando with his dog, around 1813.

The nuptial bower, with the evil one, peeping at the charms of Eden, from Milton, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, London : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1797, William Pitt escorting Eleanor Eden to a vine-shaded bower within which are three large sacks with the British pound symbol on them, possibly representing Pitt's debt. Bunches of grapes, crowns, and medallions, suspended from ribbons, hang from the bower. A devil-like creature, the Evil-One, representing Charles James Fox, peers around the bo

The Hatpin. Le Chapeau Epingle. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Lithograph With Handcoloring, Circa 1897. L.610 X 496mm. S. 803 X 597mm.

Vestigia delle Terme di Tito. Apollo. Quadro from the decoration of the room of the room 15; Carlone, Marco (1742-1796), Smuglewicz, Franciszek (1745-1807), Mirri, Ludovico (1738-1786); 1776 (1776-00-00-1776-00-00);Apollo (myth), DESA - collection, Rome, Italy, town, Terme di Tito, Umiastowski, Roman, collection, Golden House of Nero, antique, architecture, archeology, relief, decorations, lens, head of jellyfish, purchase (provenance)

The Garden of Love. Artist: After Jörg Breu the Younger (German, Augsburg ca. 1510-1547 Augsburg). Dimensions: Diameter 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Scene of Turkish women's life; Chlebowski, Stanis AW (1835-1884); 1873 (1873-00-00-1873-00-00);Czarnecki, Stefan (1904-1971), Czarnecki, Stefan (1904-1971)-collection, Kraków, édouard (1896-1969)-collections, orient, Turks, gift (provenance), women, orientalism, genre scenes

La Comtesse in robe de piqué or as Judith (?) 1860s Pierre-Louis Pierson French. La Comtesse in robe de piqué or as Judith (?) 261374

Card game sheets with professional representations, Coutouriére, Sewerin, Sewer,

Design for a Fresco of the Tomb of Vincenzo Martinelli (1737-1807) in the Certosa of Bologna, c. 1810-1820. Pietro Fancelli (Italian, 1764-1850). Pen and brown ink and watercolor with graphite underdrawing; sheet: 47.2 x 29.8 cm (18 9/16 x 11 3/4 in.).

View of the ruins from Gladiator Square in the Alexandria Park in a white church; Richter, Willibald (Fl. 1817-1862); 1840 (1840-00-00-1840-00-00);Potocki, Andrzej Stefan (1920-1995) - collections, amateurs, trees, Polish miniatures, parks, palaces, landscapes, sculptures

Zephyre and Flore, c. 1776. Jean François Janinet (French, 1752-1814), after Antoine Coypel (French, 1661-1722). Color wash-manner etching and engraving with applied gold leaf; sheet: 33.3 x 26.5 cm (13 1/8 x 10 7/16 in.).

Rosalind surprised Orlando in the forest, 1791 print Deed 5, scene 4, written from the play by William Shakespeare entitled 'As You Like It'. paper etching / engraving (SHAKESPEARE, As you like it) specific works of literature (with AUTHOR, Title)

Round cartouche with title, surrounded by female figures and putti, Title page for art book with Coloured Drawings, draughtsman: Gerard van Nijmegen, 1745 - 1808, paper, pen, brush, h 387 mm × w 288 mm

Louis Fabritius Dubourg depicted the Muses and Apollo on a throne on clouds for a ceiling draft, using gray and green pen and brush with watercolor.

A girl proudly shows her scrap album to papa and mama ; this lithograph was probably intended as a cover or title- page to a scrap album such as the one she is holding. Date: circa 1840

Fashionable lady drinking at a table in a pleasure garden under gas lamps, Paris, 1897. With flowers in her hair, dress with tight waist, large puff sleeves and full skirts. Handcoloured drypoint or pointe-seche etching by Henri Boutet from Les Modes Feminines du XIXeme Siecle (Feminine Fashions of the 19th Century), Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1902. Boutet (1851-1919) was a French artist, engraver, lithographer and designer.

The Portrait Bust. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hubert Robert.

Reproductie van het Schilderij 'The first kiss' Door C. Schweninger Jr., Ter Illustratie Bij 'The trumpeter of Säckingen', Anonymous, publisher of Hanfstaengl's successor, After Carl Schweninger (II), 1887 photomechanical print Berlin paper. cardboard collotype picture, painting. (lovers) kissing each other

No quiren.. Goya, Francisco (1746-1828). 1810. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Peninsular War, 1807-1814 , Atrocities, Rapes

Rude Stairway, from the series, Views in Central Park, New York, Part 2. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 in. × 2 3/8 in. (10.2 × 6.1 cm). Publisher: Louis Prang & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts). Date: 1864. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Print, Touch, from "Senses"; France; brush and watercolor, gold on paper; 56.8 × 81.5 cm (22 3/8 × 32 1/16 in.)

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