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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 44

"A Tale of Two Sultans, Part I: Fragonards Real and Fake": The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)

Stein, Perrin
2009
9 pages
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Perrin Stein

Perrin Stein oversees the collection of French drawings, prints, and illustrated books before 1800. She came to The Met in 1995 following three years as assistant curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She holds a BA from Amherst College and a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has organized and contributed to numerous exhibition and collection catalogues, including Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (1999), The Wrightsman Pictures (2005), French Drawings from the British Museum: Clouet to Seurat (2005), Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724–1780 (2007), Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France (2013), and Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant (2016).

Selected publications

The Sultan, Jean Honoré Fragonard  French, Brush and brown wash over traces of graphite
Jean Honoré Fragonard
n.d.
The Sultan, Jean Honoré Fragonard  French, Brush and brown wash (possibly bistre) over black chalk underdrawing
Jean Honoré Fragonard
1774