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.

Les hommes, toujours - a selection of male portraits

 

Autoritratto, by Mario Sironi, 1904.

The artist Yozif Sutter, by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1812.

Count Benedykt Henryk Tyszkiewicz, by Kazimierz Pochwalski, 1889.

Hugues Desnotz, by Nicolas de Largillière, 1704.

Midshipman Robert Grant, by George Watson, circa 1820.

Portrait of a Man in White, French School, 1574.

Alexander Pope, attributed to Jonathan Richardson, circa 1736.

Self-portrait, by Eilnar IImoni, 1932. (I don't believe the date given this is correct; Ilmoni was 53 in 1932.)

Self-portrait, by Ford Madox Brown, circa 1844.

Unknown sitter, unknown artist, circa 1795.

Portrait of a Man Holding a Volume of Petrarch, by Jean Clouet, circa 1530.

The sculptor Tobias Weiss, by Wilhelm Leibl, 1866.

Jean-Charles-Auguste Simon, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806.

Self-portrait, by Adriaen van de Venne, 1618.

A. G. Webster, by George Clausen, 1881.

Portrait of a Noble from Eastern Europe, Flemish School, circa late seventeenth century.

Portrait of a Man, presumed to be Hassan, the "Keeper of the Giraffe" for Charles X of France, by Claude-Marie Dubufe, 1826-7.

Young Man Distracted - Study, by Jean Raymond Hippolyte Lazerges, 1850.

Józef Ciechoński, by Jan Matejko, 1873.

Unknown sitter, by Hans Johan Frederik Berg, circa 1840s-50s.

Filippo di Borbone, duca di Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla, by Laurent Pécheux, circa 1765. (Father of the below.)

Ferdinando di Borbone, duca di Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla, by Laurent Pécheux, 1765. (Son and successor of the above.)

Paul-Marie Duval, by Edgar Maxence, 1930.

Wilhelm Marstrand at his easel in Eckersberg's studio, by Christen Købke, circa 1829.