Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Nude Girl with Arms Outstretched 1911 Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper, 48 x 31.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid At the beginning of the twentieth century, when sexuality began to be explored more seriously, some artists — among…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le baiser (The Kiss) c.1816–1817 Charcoal, wash and gouache on brown paper, 20 x 27.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Having failed to win the Academy prize that would finance a study trip to Italy, in 1816 Géricault decided…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Saint Yves, patron saint of lawyers s.d. Gouache on two cardboard glued together, 300 x 312 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This cartoon was designed in the mid-1640s for the eight-piece ‘Proverbs’ hanging. On September 22, 1644, Jordaens…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) La ruée des disciples du Christ (The Rush of Christ’s Disciples) 1926 Pastel heightened with gouache on paper, 31.7 x 23.7 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Le Moulin de la Galette 1900s Gouache, 25 x 32.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Moulin de la Galette (Paris)
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka, Jr.) 1916 Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on paper, 49.9 x 32.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Egon Schiele depicted a small child, the son of a friend, in this drawing devoid…
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Budding Sycamore 1875 Black and gray wash, gouache, and graphite, 34.8 x 44.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This drawing was used as an illustration in John Ruskin‘s manual on drawing, Rudimentary Studies. The most influential art…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Arm of Eve 1507 Point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache, 34.4 x 26.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The blue paper that Dürer used to…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Garden Court 1870–1875 Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache, on paper, 32.3 x 60.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones‘s socialist beliefs,…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Chancel of Petworth Church: A Copy of Michelangelo’s ‘Pieta’ 1827 Gouache and watercolour on paper, 14.2 x 19.4 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Michelangelo (1475-1564) Pietà 1498–1499 San Pietro, Vaticano See also: • Michelangelo…