An oil sketch or oil study is an artwork made primarily in oil paint in preparation for a larger, finished work. Originally these were created as preparatory studies or modelli, especially so as to gain approval for the design of a larger commissioned painting. They were also used as designs for specialists in other media, such as printmaking or tapestry, to follow. Later they were produced as independent works, often with no thought of being expanded into a full-size painting.
The usual medium for modelli was the drawing, but an oil sketch, even if done in a limited range of colours, could better suggest the tone of the projected work. It is also possible to more fully convey the flow and energy of a composition in paint. For a painter with exceptional technique, the production of an oil sketch may be as rapid as that of a drawing, and many practitioners had superb brush skills. In its rapidity of execution the oil sketch may be used not only to express movement and transient effects of light and color, its gestural nature may even represent a mimetic parallel to the action of the subject.
An oilsketch or oil study is an artwork made primarily in oil paint in preparation for a larger, finished work. Originally these were created as preparatory...
the Tsarevich's head rests on the floor, which is very visible in the oilsketch Repin made in 1883, and which he kept and resumed later, is erased in...
piece. It is the analogue of the painter's cartoon, modello, oilsketch, or drawn sketch. For commissioned works, especially monumental public sculptures...
produced a full-scale oilsketch for the work; this is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Another small oil-sketch, the first in his experimentation...
reference works vary somewhat. Alternative and overlapping terms are "oilsketch" (schizzo) and "cartoon" for paintings, tapestry, or stained glass; maquette...
short-lived Second Mexican Empire. Manet produced three large oil paintings, a smaller oilsketch and a lithograph of the same subject. All five works were...
private collections. An oilsketch of the composition is on display at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris and a pastel sketch is in a private collection...
Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The original oilsketch is at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, and he made lithographs of...
intention to have Gennaro Bellelli seated at the end of the table, and an oilsketch placed him standing behind his daughters; finally, Degas painted him in...
after the former's failed attempt to assassinate the latter. Initial oilsketches and drawings for the work date to before 1620 and are now in the Pushkin...
carry; for this reason they are often used for sketching, but can also be used for sustained works. Because oil pastels never dry out completely, they need...
sessions, in which many poses were attempted. Like the eventual portrait, an oilsketch entitled Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)...
The sketches themselves were the first ever done in oils directly from the subject in the open air, with the notable exception of the oilsketches Pierre-Henri...
renamed Landscape with Figures, was identified in 1953 as a preliminary oilsketch for The World Before the Flood and purchased by the York Art Gallery....
the darkened room than the small dull-coloured bird in Wright's early oilsketch. A resemblance has been pointed out between the group of the bird and...
the hills near Carcajou Bay in the background, that Thomson made the oilsketch in 1916 that he would use for the final painting in 1917. There are numerous...
medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore...
1884 Sketch of figure, from two-sided sketch for Swimming, oil on paperboard, 5+3⁄4 × 4 in (15 × 10 cm), 1884 Sketch of torso, from two-sided sketch for...
Numerous life drawings and painted studies for the painting survive. A small oilsketch of the composition is in the Musée Ingres in Montauban. In 1855, Ingres...
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