#sketch
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Sketch for "The Oriental Dream" by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1901
Apparently this is a small preparatory sketch for a bigger, finished painting - the kind of quick study made to work out a mood before committing to the real canvas. I couldn't track down much more about it.
Erisava: The bright figure on the left feels like it wandered in from a different painting.
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Rosina Ferrara, Head of a Capri Girl by John Singer Sargent, 1878
This one's apparently a quick gift sketch for a friend, painted during a stay on Capri - the model was well known locally and sat for plenty of other visiting painters too.
Erisava: Her face is finished, but the rest of the canvas barely got started.
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The Windshield, On the Road to Villacoublay by Henri Matisse, 1917
I read that Matisse painted this from inside a moving car — had his son pull over on a drive to an airport near Paris in 1917, then worked through the windshield with the windows shut while passing traffic rocked the car back and forth.
Erisava: Is a steering wheel and an empty road really something worth painting?
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Village at the Water's Edge by Roger de La Fresnaye, 1910
I couldn't find much on this one at all. From what I've read he's mostly remembered for cubism, and this seems to come from before any of that — a small early thing that survived. If anyone knows more, I'd love the story.
Erisava: If I found this in a garage I'd never guess it was worth anything.
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl by Michelangelo, 1511
This is one of several studies Michelangelo made while working out the Libyan Sibyl for the Sistine Chapel ceiling — the same sheet has more sketches on the back, including a small seated figure that never made it into the fresco. Apparently he drew from a male studio model even though the finished sibyl reads as a woman, which is why the anatomy here looks so unmistakably male.
Erisava: Is this actually finished, or just a page of practice sketches?
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Studies for the Surrender of Breda: recto by Diego Velázquez, 1634
This is apparently a working sketch — Velázquez roughing out how a soldier's back and stance might sit before he committed anything to canvas for a much bigger scene.
Erisava: Honestly, the stains on the paper are doing more work than the pencil lines.