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.

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Monsieur de Buissy, by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, circa 1780.

 Kiosk – Stone Island (editorial), by James Pearson-Howes, contemporary.

 Le salon vert de Cécile Sorel quai Voltaire, by Paul Thomas, reproduced in L'illustration, 1926.

Atelier Mannasé, circa 1920s.

Bronze and silver figure, Roman, 1st-3rd Century AD.

Edwina Booth, circa late 1920s.

Portrait of an Elderly Lady, circle of David, circa 1820.

Aftenlandskab (evening landscape), by Julius Paulsen, 1901.

Countess Kitty von Schönborn-Buchheim, future Baroness de Rothschild, Atelier d'Ora, circa 1916.

Portrait said to be of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese and former Duchess of Guastalla, by Louis-Benjamin-Marie Devouges, 1811.

Gertrude Lawrence, by Bertram Park, 1928.

 Alexis Champagne, by Auguste Flandrin, 1842.

Table attributed to Charles Topino, circa 1780s. (The two back feet, visible elsewhere, are missing in this photograph.)

Dama a caballo (lady on horseback), by José Campeche y Jordán, 1785.

"John Hosea, football (Gridiron) player for Texas Wesleyan College, working out on rowing machine at YMCA Fort Worth", 1938.

Lo Psiconauta (The Psychonaut), by Agostino Arrivabene, 2007.

Woman and child, by Toshikata Mizuno 水野年方, 1892.

Madame Hamon des Roches de Bournay, by Antoine Vestier, 1786.

Kitty Carlisle, circa 1934-35.

 "Men dressed for dancing", Tahiti, 1887.

David & Saul, Flemish School, circa second half of the nineteenth century.

Portrait d'une élégante dame ("Portrait de Mme A. B."), by Camille-Joseph-Étienne Roqueplan, circa 1836.

Peter Lorre, circa early 1930s.

Young man, possibly a member of the Strozzi family, by Jacopo Chimenti, called Jacopo da Empoli, circa 1593. 

Pelt Merchant of Cairo, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1869.

Unknown young woman, by Thomas Martin Easterly, circa early 1850s.

Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.

Nude study, by Pelle Swedlund, 1890.

1911.

 Ringende Jünglinge (wrestling youths), by Max Bernuth, 1913.

Alan Ford, by Bernard Hoffman for Life Magazine, circa 1945.

Mort pour la patrie (death for the fatherland), by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1892.

Portrait of a Young Gentleman in Rome, by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1790.

 Handyman (study), by R.H. Ives Gammell 1938.

The Victorious Samson, by Guido Reni, 1614-16.

 "Bob Malone, 2816 Purington, tries to choose a new hat to wear on felt hat day Friday. He favors the soft sage green felt he is wearing....", Ft. Worth, 1941.

Madame Barbier-Walbonne, by Alexandre Kucharsky, circa 1808-10.

Nude study, by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, 1877.

Maria Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester, by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, circa 1766-69.

Anonymous self-portrait. Courtesy Stephen Rutledge. 

Portrait of a Lady in a Red Dress, attributed to Gabriël Metsu, circa 1660.

Male Figure Study, circle of William Mulready, circa first half of the nineteenth century .

Henriette Grevedon, by François Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle, circa 1830s.

Man in Theater Seat, by Paul Citroen, 1932.