Tag: gouache

Arm of Eve (1507)

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…

The Garden Court (1870-1875)

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,…

A Copy of Michelangelo’s Pieta (1827)

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…

L’Esprit de géométrie (1937)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Esprit de géométrie (The Spirit of Geometry) 1937 Gouache on paper, 37.5 × 29.2 cm Tate Britain, London Magritte exchanges the heads of a mother and a baby – compressing one and enlarging the other. The effect is…

ABC (1927)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) ABC 1927 Gouache on paper, 19.4 × 27.8 cm Tate Britain, London ABC is a preparatory study in gouache for the oil painting Nature morte A.B.C., 1927, given by Léger’s art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to the Musée Fernand…

Bretons se promenant (c.1889-1890)

Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Bretons se promenant (Bretons Walking) c.1889–1890 Gouache and watercolor on thin cardboard, 38.7 x 59 cm Private collection See also: • Bretagne (France)

Mountain Scene (1908)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Mountain Scene 1908 Watercolor and gouache over graphite, 25.4 x 35.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Sargent mastered the medium of watercolor as an adolescent, rapidly perfecting and gradually simplifying his virtuoso technique. He produced watercolors…

Ideas for Sculpture: Heads (1959)

Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Ideas for Sculpture: Heads 1959 Graphite, black and red chalk, grey wash and black gouache, 29 x 23.9 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton © The Henry Moore Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

View in Montmartre, Paris (1889)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) View in Montmartre, Paris 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite, 35.3 x 25.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Montmartre | Paris (France)

Satyre et nymphe (1817)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Satyre et nymphe (Satyr and Nymph) 1817 Black chalk with brown wash and white gouache, 22.2 x 18.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton