Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna
January 21, 2009–April 26, 2009 Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, 2nd floor
This will be the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the European old master and 19th-century drawings from the distinguished collection of Mr. Jean Bonna in Geneva, Switzerland. Many of the 120 drawings on display are masterpieces, ranging through 500 years of art history, from the Renaissance to 1900, and representing a diversity of artistic schools in Italy, Northern Europe, France, and Great Britain, among other regions. The selection will include works by famous artists—such as Carpaccio, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Canaletto, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Manet, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Seurat—as well as superb and poignant drawings by others less well-known. Accompanied by a catalogue.
Carmen Bambach, curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, discusses the exhibition.
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The exhibition is made possible in part by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund.
