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Kindred. The daughter of a ‘wild’ writer

Hi folks! ‘The Jungle Book’:

What a great work, written by the father of this little girl, but what a wonder sketch drawn by the genius of this woman  💜  Thanks for your visit !

https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/elizabeth-jane-gardner-bouguereau

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By Gardner Bouguereau, Elizabeth Jane – Seated young daughter of Rudyard Kipling

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Memories about a famous great artist

Hi folks!

In my opinion this is a fresh, spontaneous and excellent sketch.

Thanks for your visits !

By Bouché, R. – Portrait of Sofia, the actress

 

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Famous people sketched

By Dalí, Salvador - Giacomo Casanova and a mistress

By Dalí, Salvador – Giacomo Casanova and a mistress

By Musset, Alfred de - Portrait of George Sand (real name, Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin)

By Musset, Alfred de – Portrait of George Sand (real name, Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin)

By Toulouse-Lautrec - The general Bonaparte

By Toulouse-Lautrec – The general Bonaparte

By Nerli, C. G. P. - Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson

By Nerli, C. G. P. – Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson

By Van Grevenbroeck, J. - Portrait of Marco Polo standing

By Van Grevenbroeck, J. – Portrait of Marco Polo standing

By Clarà, Josep - Isadora Duncan

By Clarà, Josep – Isadora Duncan

By Ciceri, P. L. C. - Caricature of Alexander Dumas (father)

By Ciceri, P. L. C. – Caricature of Alexander Dumas (father)

By Beardsley, Aubrey - Oscar Wilde at work

By Beardsley, Aubrey – Oscar Wilde at work

By Jordaens, Jacob - The marriage of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony

By Jordaens, Jacob – The marriage of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony

By Klinger, Max - Sketch for Nietzsche

By Klinger, Max – Sketch for Nietzsche

By Goya - The Duke of Wellington

By Goya – The Duke of Wellington

By Altman, Nathan - Portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, writing

By Altman, Nathan – Portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, writing

By anonymous artist of 14th century - Depiction of Genghis Khan, the mongol khan of the imperial dynasty Yuan

By anonymous artist of 14th century – Depiction of Genghis Khan, the mongol khan of the imperial dynasty Yuan

By Delacroix - Marcus Tullius Cicero. The roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator and consul

By Delacroix – Marcus Tullius Cicero. The roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator and consul

By Blake - Three poets, Dante Alighieri, Publius Papinius Statius and Virgil on a perron

By Blake – Three poets, Dante Alighieri, Publius Papinius Statius and Virgil on a perron

By Fragonard - Charlemagne king of the franks during the middle ages

By Fragonard – Charlemagne king of the franks during the middle ages

By Ingres - Labrouste, the great architect

By Ingres – Labrouste, the great architect

By Marstrand, Wilhelm Nicolai - Sketch about Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, the danish philosopher seen in profile

By Marstrand, Wilhelm Nicolai – Sketch about Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, the danish philosopher seen in profile

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Famous people sketched

By Léger - Rimbaud

By Léger – Rimbaud

By Delacroix - Aspasia, the milesian woman of the 5th century

By Delacroix – Aspasia, the milesian woman of the 5th century

By De la Tour, M. Q. - The french Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, François-Marie A. Voltaire

By De la Tour, M. Q. – The french Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, François-Marie A. Voltaire

By Picasso - Portrait of Paul Éluard

By Picasso – Portrait of Paul Éluard

By Della Bella - Galileo Galilei offers the spyglass to the Astronomy, Optics and Mathematics

By Della Bella – Galileo Galilei offers the spyglass to the Astronomy, Optics and Mathematics

By Opisso, Ricard - Oscar Wilde, with Yvette Guilbert and Toulouse-Lautrec at his right, seated at the Cafe de la Galette

By Opisso, Ricard – Oscar Wilde, with Yvette Guilbert and Toulouse-Lautrec at his right, seated at the Cafe de la Galette

By Marstrand, Wilhelm - The danish philosopher Kierkegaard seen in profile

By Marstrand, Wilhelm – The danish philosopher Kierkegaard seen in profile

By Wille, P. A. - The french revolutionary, Georges Jacques Danton

By Wille, P. A. – The french revolutionary, Georges Jacques Danton

By Bree, M. I. Van - Napoleon I

By Bree, M. I. Van – Napoleon I

By Bastien-Lepage - Joan of Arc

By Bastien-Lepage – Joan of Arc

By Cranach, Lucas - Luther's father

By Cranach, Lucas – Luther’s father

By Rivers, Larry - Study for George Washington crossing the Delaware

By Rivers, Larry – Study for George Washington crossing the Delaware

By De la Tour, M. Q. - The head of Madame de Pompadour

By De la Tour, M. Q. – The head of Madame de Pompadour

By Brancusi - James Joyce

By Brancusi – James Joyce

By Cabanel, Alexandre - Louis IX king of France

By Cabanel, Alexandre – Louis IX king of France

By Pasternak, L. - The poet Rainer Maria Rilke near the Red Square and the Kremlin in the background

By Pasternak, L. – The poet Rainer Maria Rilke near the Red Square and the Kremlin in the background

By De Chirico, Giorgio - Euripides, one of the three great tragedians

By De Chirico, Giorgio – Euripides, one of the three great tragedians

By De Musset, A. - George Sand at home

By De Musset, A. – George Sand at home

By De Herrera, Francisco, el Joven - Carlos II king of Castilla and Aragón with his mother Mariana of Austria

By De Herrera, Francisco, el Joven – Carlos II king of Castilla and Aragón with his mother Mariana of Austria

By Deineka Alexander- The poet Mayakovsky

By Deineka Alexander- The poet Mayakovsky

By Alexander Pushkin - An sketch of Nikolai Gogol seen in profile

By Alexander Pushkin – An sketch of Nikolai Gogol seen in profile

By Ilia Efimovich Repin - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy reading

By Ilia Efimovich Repin – Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy reading

By Bodinier, Guillaume - Portrait of Homer blind

By Bodinier, Guillaume – Portrait of Homer blind

By Helleu, P. - Marcel Proust in deathbed

By Helleu, P. – Marcel Proust in deathbed

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By Munch – Portrait of F.W. Nietzsche

By Repin, Ilya Y. – Leo Tolstoy working

By Leoni, O. M. – Galileo Galilei

By Hensel, Wilhelm – G. W. F. Hegel

By Clouet, François – Catherine de Médicis

By Busch,Wilhelm – Sketch of A. Schopenhauer

By Rubens – Spanish statesman Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas ‘Duque de Lerma’

By Picasso – Portrait of Luis de Góngora

By Cranach, Lucas the Elder – Suicide of Lucretia

By Vallotton, Félix – To Edgar Poe

By Craig, E. G. – Angela Isadora Duncan

By Renart, J – Sketch of A. Gaudi

By Blake, W. – Drawing of Isaac Newton

By Pisanello, A. – Sigismund, the holy roman emperor

By unknown master of 17th c.- Depiction of persian emperor Tarmashirin Khan

By Altman, Nathan – Vladimir I. Lenin seated and holding papers

By Zuccari, Federico – Queen Elizabeth I

By Dalí, S. – Gala (Elena Ivanovna Diakonova)

By Clouet, Jean – Francis, Duke of Anjou and Alençon

By Dufy, R. – Portrait of G. W. Von Leibnitz

By Dürer – Portrait of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman I

By Gimignani – Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) killing his sister

By Hokusai, Katsushika – The chinese philosopher Lao Tse

By unknown master of 17th c. – Shah Jahan (‘Ruler of World’) of the Mughal empire on horseback

By Bernini, G. L. – Constantinus (Constantine)

By Rossetti, Dante G.- Aspasia of Miletus, teaching Socrates to dance

By Picasso – The bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín posing

By David, J. L. – Homer singing his poems

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By Okamoto Ippei – Portrait of Einstein

By Collier, E. Marion – Portrait of Charles Darwin

By Watts, George Frederic – Ellen Terry

By Delacroix – Sketch for Attila

By David – Napoleon in his study

By Holbein, the Younger – Portrait of Anne Boleyn

By Michelangelo – The syrian Queen Zenobia

Shahnameh persian miniature – Alexander the Great in front of talking tree

By Rembrandt – Homer dictating to a scribe

By Blake, William – Nebuchadnezzar

By Furtenagel – Sketch of the dead Martin Luther

Miniature from ‘The wonderful story of Muhammad’ Abu Talib father of Ali, the fourth caliph and first imam

By Cézanne – Portrait of Émile Zola

By Raphael – The School of Athens

By Da Vinci – Portrait of Lorenzo de Medici

By Pisanello – Sketches of the Emperor John VIII Palaeologus, a monk and a Scabbard

By Manet – Chrysippus of Soli, the greek stoic philosopher

By Picasso – Balzac

By David – Study for the Death of Socrate

By Vallotton – Portrait of Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

By Ingres – The Duke of Alba receives the Pope’s Blessing in the Cathedral of St. Gudule, Brussels

By Baldung, Hans – Aristotle and Phyllis

By Holbein, the Younger – Sir Thomas More

By Luca, Giordano – St. Thomas Aquinas

By Dali – Portrait of Sigmund Freud

By Moreau, Gustave – sheet of studies on Joan of Arc and heads of women

By Klee – The Emperor William grumbles again

By Toulouse-Lautrec, H. – Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Phaedra at theatre

By Ingres – Statue of Marcellus battleship and head of Livia

By Maclise, Daniel – Michael Faraday

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By Malevich – Nero resolving death with his left hand (From ‘Victory on Sun’)

Seljuk manuscript 13th century – Socrates debating with his students.

Egyptian drawing – Ramses IV in his chariot (detail)

By Goya – Portrait of Francisco of Paula and of Bourbon, spanish Duke of Seville

By Kokoschka – Alma Mahler

By Léger – Louis Aragon

By Velázquez – The cardinal Borgia

By Fantin Latour – Edgar Poe with Baudelaire

By Rubens – Duke of Buckingham

By Bihzad – Portrait of the poet Hatifi, Jami’s nephew, wearing a shiite turban

By Da Vinci – Three sketches of Cesare Borgia

By Michelangelo – Cleopatra

By Steinlen – Portrait of Gorki

By Barlach, Ernst – The poet Theodor Däubler lying with a little dog

By Régamey, Félix – Rimbaud with Verlaine

By Naqqash Sinan Bey – Portrait of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror

By Dürer – Erasmus of Rotterdam

By Van Diepenbeeck – William duke of Newcastle riding

By Fragonard – Head of Benjamin Franklin

By Carrogis, Louis – David Hume

By Anonymous author of german school .18th century – Depiction of Marcus Aurelius

By Reza Abbasi – Muhammad-Beik, prince of Georgia

By Hodges, William – Pomare I, the King of Tahiti

By Waud, Alfred R. – General George Custer Receives a flag of truce at Appomattox Court House

By Bronzino – Rear of Cleopatra. Copy after Bandinelli’s

By Van Eyck, Jan – Portrait of the Cardinal Albergati

By Richmond, George – Charlotte Brontë

Aretino, Spinello – Scenes from the life of pope Alexander III

By Martin, David – Thomas Muir

By Régamey, Félix – Verlaine

By Bihzad – Jami as Apollonius and the minister Mir Ali Sher Nawai as Alexander

By Warhol – Michael Jackson

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By David – Danton (profile)

Unknown authorship – Petrarch. (Drawing of his era)

By Picasso – Sketch of Stalin

By Manet – George Moore at the ‘Nouvelle-Athenes Cafe’ in Paris

By Cocteau – Portrait of Diaghilev with Nijinsky

By Cranach – Portrait of Martin Luther as a monk

By Picabia – Apollinaire

By Matisse – Portrait of Léonide Massine

By Tintoretto – Face of Vitellius emperor

By Warhol – Mao Tse-tung or Mao Zedong portrait

By Bernini – Portrait of Cardinal Borghese

By Lewis, Wyndham – Virginia Woolf

By Raphael – Head of Pope Julius II

By Bonsignori, Francesco – Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga

By Zorn, Anders – Strindberg

By Greuze – Portrait of Denis Diderot

By Sickert – Sebastian Melmoth (pseudonymous of Oscar Wilde)

By David – Study to the death of Socrates

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