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Bistre

Bistre [French: "bistre" = nut brown, chocolate brown] is a special pigment used in watercolors and wash drawings until the 19th century. To make bistre, tarry soot was made from burnt beechwood and mixed in water. Brownish in color, bistre was used in watercolors, either as a wash or as a paint. Bistre was used especially from the 15th to the 18th centuries by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Tintoretto and Titian. Replaced by sepia in the 19th century, bistre can be in various shades of brown, depending on what sort of wood was burnt to make it. Beechwood (European beech: Fagus sylvatica) bistre is lighter in color while oak produces a darker tint.

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Stuck

Franz von Stuck - Zugeschrieben - 2 Blätter: Armstudie. Landschaft (Geburtshaus in Tettenweis?)

Sale 346 - Oct. 25, 08
Lot 1533 - in 24 days
Red chalk 1900
400 EUR / 568 $
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Dreber, H.

Heinrich Dreber - Zwei Studien einer Bäuerin

Sale 346 - Oct. 25, 08
Lot 1407 - in 24 days
Sepia 1840
300 EUR / 426 $
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Chéret, Jules

Jules Chéret - Dame galante

Sale 324 - Oct. 26, 07
Lot 72
Red chalk 1900
1,800 EUR / 2,556 $
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Modersohn, Otto

Sale 324 - Oct. 26, 07
Lot 327
Red chalk 1900
1,200 EUR / 1,704 $
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Kaulbach

Friedrich August von Kaulbach - Porträt Gretel Lahmeyer

Sale 304 - Oct. 28, 06
Lot 244
Red chalk 1894
714 EUR / 1,013 $
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