Thursday, November 28, 2019

Blue Paper – Northern European Drawings – 1700-1800

Louis Chéron
Académie (as Artist)
before 1725
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

Allan Ramsay
Head of a Man in three-quarter view
ca. 1737
drawing on blue paper
National Galleries of Scotland

Allan Ramsay
Académie
ca. 1737
drawing on blue paper
National Galleries of Scotland

François Boucher
Landscape near Beauvais
ca. 1740-50
drawing on blue paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

François Boucher
Peasant Girl
ca. 1765
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

Hyacinthe Rigaud
Portrait of a Marshal of France
ca. 1740
drawing on blue paper
Albertina, Vienna

Joseph-Marie Vien
Study of Seated Model wearing Oriental Costume
1748
drawing on blue paper
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Anonymous Artist
Académie
18th century
drawing on blue paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Anonymous Artist
Académie
18th century
drawing on blue paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Anonymous German Artist
Scene at an Inn
18th century
drawing (ink and gouache) on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Charles-Antoine Coypel
Allegory of Painting
before 1752
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Thomas Gainsborough
Study of a Lady
ca. 1755-65
drawing (colored chalks) on blue paper
British Museum

Januarius Zick
Resurrection of Christ
1760
drawing on blue paper
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Benjamin Robert Haydon
Head of a Gaul (antique sculpture)
late 18th century
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

James Clark
The Hope Venus (antique sculpture)
1791
drawing on blue paper
British Museum