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- Vasari, Seven Bishop Saints
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- Wildens, A Hilly Path
- Florentine School , Floral Ornament
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- French School, Head of Hercules
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- Cabel, River Landscape
- d'Onofri , Trees in a Landscape
- German School, The Coronation of the Virgin
- Heemskerck, Peasants Drinking
- Piola, St. Raymond
- Moucheron , Classical Figures in a Grove of Trees
- Chaufourrier, Solfatara
- Lantara , Storm over a Village
- Volaire , Neapolitan Boatman
- Monogramist Vh , Woodland Grove
- Bolognese School, Seated Warrior
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- Altmann , Wine Taster
- Decamps, Trees at the Villa
- Nanteuil , Two Figures
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- Dehodencq, Three Sketches
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- Dansaert , Brawl in a Tavern
- Chapu, Studies for ’’Une Source’’
- Vannutelli, Two Women Seated in a Church
- Lepère, Studies of Ladies Shopping
- Béjot, Pont de l'Alma
- Henricus, Japonisme
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- Couturier, Carnival Scene at Night
- Brockhurst, Chinese Group
- Stankavich, On the Frontier
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19. Pierre-Jacques Volaire, called Chevalier Volaire (1729-before 1802) Neapolitan Boatman |
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Neapolitan Boatman
Black and white chalk on blue prepared paper, 364 x 261 mm.
The verso of the sheet is inscribed in ink “Chevalier de Volaire, Napoli.” Volaire was the student and assistant of Joseph Vernet and later painted port scenes in Toulon, Rome and Naples, where he lived from about 1769. A large group of similar drawings is in the Achenbach (see Four Centuries of French Drawings in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Nos. 136-180) and the catalog provides the description: “Volaire usually drew in black and white chalks on sheets prepared with pastel-tone ground. This toned background heightens the relief of his drawn figures and produces an effect analagous to silverpoint drawings and chiaroscuro prints of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.” An elegant sheet.
