Sunday, December 4, 2016

Painted Sketches and Drawings, 19th-century

Henri Joseph Harpignies
Cascade at Saint-Cloud
19th century
watercolor
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Château de Saint-Cloud was a royal palace and park a few miles outside Paris. It became a favored dwelling of Napoleon and of various other short-term French monarchs of the 19th century. In 1870 the Prussians invaded, after the French declared war. Saint-Cloud lay in the path of conflict and the Château did not survive.

Johann Christian Rienhardt
Landscape with lake
ca. 1820
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Théodore Rousseau
Stormy sky
ca. 1842
oil on panel
Victoria & Albert Museum, London 

Théodore Rousseau
Tree in Fountainebleau Forest
1840s
oil on paper
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Singer Sargent
Landscape with Temple
ca. 1890
oil on panel
British Museum

John Singer Sargent
Paul Helleu in a Garden
1880s
pastel
British Museum

Auguste Renoir
Courtyard at Versailles
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-François Millet
Woman burning weeds
mid-19th century
pen and watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jules Nogues
Portrait of a man seated in a study
1833
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Édouard Vuillard
Self-portrait with Waroquy
1889
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sydney Prior Hall
Gladstone reading
1890s
gouache
National Portrait Gallery, London

Félix Vallotton
Street scene in Paris
1895
gouache
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Édouard Manet
Picnic in a  wood
19th century
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Ashmolean curators describes Manet's drawing (above) as "black chalk, partly reinforced with pen and black ink, with green, yellow, blue, brown, and black watercolor." 

François Marius Granet
A Cardinal examining a painting
early 19th century
watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York