Le Depart pour le Casino, Manteau du Soir, de Worth, 1923
Mme Ida Rubinstein dans "La Dame aux Camelias", 1923
La Fontaine de Coquillages: Robe du Soir de Paquin, 1914
Le Jour et la Nuit (The Day and the Night), 1922
Georges Augustin Barbier (1882-1932), was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century.
Des Roses dans la Nuit: Robe du Soir, de Worth, 1921
L'Arbre de Science: Robe du Soir de Doeuillet, 1914
The nickname by Vogue was a tribute to their fashionable and flamboyant mannerisms and style of dress.
Barbier presided over a group of artists from the Ecole des Beaux Arts who were nicknamed by Vogue "The Knights of the Bracelet" ...
Sortileges: Evening Dress, de Beer, 1922
Botticelli - Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1475-1500
Elegance from the Renaissance
Bronzino - Portrait of Ugolino Martelli, c 1535-37
Bronzino - Portrait of a Lady in Red (possibly Francesca Salviati), c. 1533
Bronzino - Lodovico Capponi, c. 1550-51
Bronzino - Eleanor of Toledo, c. 1562 - 1572
Bronzino - Portrait of Stefano Colonna IV, 1546
Bronzino - Portrait of Bia de Medici, c. 1542-45
Alphonse Mucha
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the most sought after illustrators in the Art Nouveau period. He was especially well known for his unique, stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt.
La Samaritaine, 1897 Cycles Waverley, Paris, 1898
Zodiac Chocolates & Confections, 19th century
La Plume, c. 1896-97
La Dame aux Camelias with Sarah Bernhardt, 1896
La Tosca - Sarah Bernhardt Theatre, 19th century
Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli, 1897
Monaco Monte Carlo, 1897
Imprimeur-Editeur, 1898
Salon des Cent, 1876
F. Champenois
Leslie Carter, 1908
The Devil Playing, 1896
The Strange World of Hugo Simberg
Hugo Simberg (1873-1917) is hardly a household name. Simberg was a Finnish symbolist painter whose work focused on the macabre and the supernatural. His most famous work, The Wounded Angel (1903), is thought to represent the suffering of the Finnish people or alternatively their healing.
The Wounded Angel, 1903
Garden of Death, 1896
At the Crossroads, 1896
Autumn II, 1895
The Fairytale II, 1896
Bonfires, 19th century
Dance on a Quay, 1899
Dance on a Jetty, 1903
Meditation, 1895
Poppy, 1896
Hot New Abstracts
Pamela Beer
Bee Balm Fireweed
News Day Collage I
News Day Collage II
Suzanne Nicoll
Sand and Stone
Colorfield
Kidding Around
Tina Finn
Wondrous Whale
Sleepy Sloth
Flamboyant Flamingo
The Bubble Bath
Feeling Nutty Soulmate II
Pencil Pushers
"Drawing has long been the engine room of creation" from The Story of Drawing by Susan Owens
Preparatory Drawing of Saint Joseph for Madonna and Child with Saints (aka Pucci Altarpice), c. 1516-18
Jacopo Da Pantormo 1494-1536
Standing Male Nude Seen from the Back, and Two Seated Nudes, 16th century
Figure of Minerva, c. 1485
Study for the Portrait of a Lady in Profile to the Right c. 1485
1445-1510
Head of a Man in Near Profile Looking Left, c. 1468-1470
Sandro Botticelli
Vittore Carpaccio 1465-1525
Dio Padre (God the Father), c. 1495-1500
Study of the Head of a Woman for the Apotheosis of St. Ursula, c.1490-1500
Allegory of Luxuria. c. 1426
Deer, 15th century
1395-1455
Harnessed Horse, c. 1434-45
Self-Portrait, c. 1512
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Leonardo was one of the most profilic artists in terms of drawings and sketching. It has been said that he thought with his hands.
Glider with Bat's Wings
Study of a Woman's Hands, 1474
The Vitruvian Man, c. 1492
Study for an Angel in the Virgin of the Rocks, c. 1483-85
