Archives des Focus - Drawings-online https://drawings-online.com/en/category/focus/ Dessins en ligne Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:05:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 214105258 Le tombeau de Caecilia Metella par Hubert Robert https://drawings-online.com/en/le-tombeau-de-caecilia-metella-par-hubert-robert/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:22:26 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=8842 Hubert Robert (Paris, 1733-1808)Tombeau de Caecilia MetellaSanguine sur papier crème filigrané.285 x 399 mm – 11 1/4 x 15 11/16 in. Né à Paris en 1733, Hubert Robert reçoit une éducation classique, sous la protection de la famille Stainville-Choiseul, et fréquente l’atelier du sculpteur Michel-Ange Slodtz. En 1754, il se rend à Rome avec le […]

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]]> 8842 Allegory of War and Peace by Antoon Sallaert https://drawings-online.com/en/allegory-of-war-and-peace-by-antoon-sallaert/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:12:11 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=8696 Antoon SallaertBrussels 1594 – 1650 Allegory of War and Peace   Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash and gouache on three assembled sheets of paper482 x 815 mm (19 x 32 1/16 in.) Antoon Sallaert was a painter, printmaker and draughtsman born in Brussels. His training with Michel de Bordeaux is documented, in […]

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]]> 8696 Jean-Honoré Fragonard and the Abbé de Saint-Non in Italy https://drawings-online.com/en/jean-honore-fragonard-et-labbe-de-saint-non-en-italie/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:50:30 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=8656 Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse, 1732 – Paris, 1806) Details of Luca Giordano’s Judgment of Solomon and Domenico Beccafumi’s fresco in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico. Executed on April 16 or 17, 1761 Black chalk 125 mm (150 mm with inscription) x 202 mm – 4 15/16 (5 7/8 with inscription) x 7 15/16 in. Annotation in pencil, lower […]

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]]> 8656 Sixteen preparatory cartoons for the decor of the Collegio Artigianelli church by Enrico Reffo ( 1831-1917 ) https://drawings-online.com/en/sixteen-preparatory-cartoons-for-the-decor-of-the-collegio-artigianelli-church-by-enrico-reffo-1831-1917/ Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:30:19 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=6893   Enrico Reffo Torino 1831 – 1917 Discover the 16 cartoons, black chalk and pencil fixed with brush presented by Drawings-online   Born in Turin in 1831, Enrico Reffo was initiated by his father into goldsmithing, then followed, from the age of 22, evening classes of painters Alessandro Antonelli and Michele Cusa at the Accademia […]

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]]> 6893 Project for the Frontispiece of the Biblia Sacra by Cristoforo Zane by Giambattista Tiepolo https://drawings-online.com/en/project-for-the-frontispiece-of-the-biblia-sacra-by-cristoforo-zane-by-giambattista-tiepolo/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:57:57 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=6531 Giambattista Tiepolo Venice, 1696 – Madrid, 1770 Project for the Frontispiece of the Biblia Sacra by Cristoforo Zane Black chalk and brown ink wash. 210 x 145 mm – 8 1/4 x 5 11/16 in. We are grateful to Bernard Aïkema for confirming the attribution to Giambattista Tiepolo after examination of the present drawing in […]

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]]> 6531 From the Gironde estuary to the Dolmens of Saint-Nazaire, Stanislas Gorin’s Finest Days. https://drawings-online.com/en/from-the-gironde-estuary-to-the-dolmens-of-saint-nazaire-stanislas-gorins-finest-days/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:39:27 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=5557 Stanislas Gorin Argent-sur-Sauldre, 1824 – La Brède, 1874 “Mes Beaux Jours” (My Golden Days), an album of 53 drawings Ink and watercolor. Notebook : 260 x 340 mm ; sheet : 253 x 325 mm. An integral part of the artist’s daily life, this notebook containing 53 drawings, invites us into the author’s private space, […]

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]]> 5557 85 drawings from the studio of Jules Machard (Sampans 1839 - Meudon 1900) https://drawings-online.com/en/85-drawings-from-the-studio-of-jules-machard-sampans-1839-meudon-1900/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:54:02 +0000 https://artesepia.com/FG1495-ovh/?p=4853   Having acquired a certain level of fame with his portraits of women, from 1875 onwards, Jules Machard relished a growing notoriety within the Parisian milieu. Marcel Proust in Du cote de chez Swann evokes this success in a dialogue exchanged between Madame Cottard and Swann: “I am not asking you, Sir, if a man […]

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]]> 4853 Elegant portrait of a little girl by Pauline Carolus-Duran, née Croizette https://drawings-online.com/en/elegant-portrait-of-a-little-girl-by-pauline-carolus-duran-nee-croizette/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:49:00 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=4144 This elegant portrait of a little girl in a grey and blue hat staring at us so seriously, gives us the opportunity to devote a few lines to its author, Pauline Croizette – painter and pastellist married to the famous Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Émile Durant).   Pauline Carolus-Duran, née Croizette Saint-Petersburg 1839 – Fréjus 1912  Portrait of […]

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]]> 4144 A picturesque memory of Mont-Blanc by Empire general Bacler d’Albe https://drawings-online.com/en/a-picturesque-memory-of-mont-blanc-by-empire-general-bacler-dalbe/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:44:05 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=3422 To commemorate the year of Napoleon in our own way, the focus for this month of June is a gouache made by one of the Emperor’s most illustrious generals, Louis-Albert-Guislain Bacler d’Albe, who was also a baron, a draughtsman, a geographer and a soldier.     Louis-Albert-Guislain Bacier d’Albe Saint Pol, 1761 – Sèvres, 1824 […]

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]]> 3422 Sweetness and poetry in this charming study of maternal love by Théodore Chassériau https://drawings-online.com/en/sweetness-and-poetry-in-this-charming-study-of-maternal-love-by-theodore-chasseriau/ Fri, 14 May 2021 09:57:03 +0000 https://drawings-online.com/?p=2935 « Chassériau’s graphic works seem to us today the expression of a personality as skilled as original, multifaceted as well as fruitful. What is striking in them above all, is the very particular poetry that emanates from the least of his figures, accentuated by the elegance of the line »[1]. These words, penned by Louis-Antoine […]

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