The tender line - a selection of portrait drawings and studies

 

Jonathan (Portrait of Jonathan Tichenor), by Paul Cadmus, 1942.

Lucien Simon, by Ramon Casas, 1900.

Sketch of a model, probably Nicola d'Inverno, by John Singer Sargent, circa 1890-1915.

Self-portrait, by Valentin Serov, 1883.

Portrait by O. Metzler, circa 1920s.

Portrait en buste de profil vers la gauche d'Alexandre-Michel Beljame à Rome, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1812.

 Leighton "Luckie" Lucas, by Dame Laura Knight, 1920.

Portrait study, by John Singer Sargent, 1911.

Portrait of Carl Rosenlächer, by Marie Ellenrieder, circa 1840-45.

Portrait of René Degas, the artist's brother, by Edgar Degas, circa 1859.

 My son Boris, by Leonid Osipovich Pasternak, 1923.

 Young Man Looking Left, by Francesco Salviati, circa 1540.

Noel Carrington, the artist's brother, by Dora Carrington, circa 1912.

 Portrait of an Eighteen Year Old Youth, by Albrecht Dürer, 1503.

Self-portrait, by Mark Gertler, 1909.

Head of a Man, by Adolph von Menzel, 1886 (?).

Portrait of a Boy, by Hans Robert Pippal, 1941.

Ursin-Jules Vatinelle, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1820.

Portrait eines jungen Mannes im Profil von links, by Marie Ellenrieder, circa second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Henry Sturgis Russell, by John Singer Sargent, 1924,

Assan, a Young Man, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, circa 1855-56.

 Portrait of a Young Man, by Nicholas Henri Jacob, 1821.