An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Wolk-Simon, Linda, and Carmen C. Bambach, with contributions by Stijn Alsteens, George R. Goldner, Perrin Stein, and Mary Vacarro (2010)

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This handsome volume presents selections from one of America's preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the last quarter century by David M. and Julie Tobey. Dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, seventy-two drawings—several previously unpublished—are featured. The diverse array of holdings consists principally of works by Italian masters but also by artists whose careers brought them south of the Alps, among them such brilliant draftsmen as Correggio, Giulio Romano, Parmigianino, Salvator Rosa, Poussin, Bernini, Canaletto, Tiepolo, and their contemporaries.

Impressive in their variety, the drawings include figure and composition studies, landscapes, portraits, botanical drawings, motifs inspired by classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions. Among the highlights are a splendid study of the head of Julius Caesar by Andrea del Sarto, a lively sheet of sketches by Perino del Vaga, a stunningly naturalistic study of a nude boy by Ludovico Carracci, a poetic Guercino landscape, charming topographical views by Luca Carlegarijs, Canaletto, and Bernardo Bellotto, a rare composition drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and a richly painted allegory by Giovanni David, to name just a few of the superlative examples in this carefully formed collection.

The catalogue includes lengthy entries on each drawing and illuminating biographies of the artists. Every drawing in the Tobey Collection is reproduced in color and accompanied by numerous comparative illustrations.

The contributors are Linda Wolk-Simon, Curator; George R. Goldner, Drue Heinz Chairman; Carmen C. Bambach and Perrin Stein, Curators; and Stijn Alsteens, Associate Curator, all of the Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Mary Vaccaro, Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Table of contents

Director's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contributors to the Catalogue

Preface
George R. Goldner

Note to the Reader

Catalogue

Bibliography

Index of Artists

Photograph Credits

About the authors

George R. Goldner is Drue Heinz Chairman, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Linda Wolk-Simon is Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Carmen C. Bambach is Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Perrin Stein is Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Stijn Alsteens is Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mary Vaccaro is Professor of Art History, University of Texas, Arlington.

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Artists: Barocci, Federico (Italian, ca. 1535–1612) | Bellotto, Bernardo (Italian, 1721–1780) | Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (Italian, 1598–1680) | Canaletto (Canal, Giovanni Antonio) (Italian, 1697–1768) | Carlegarijs, Luca | Carracci, Ludovico (Italian, Bolognese, 1555–1619) | Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (Italian, Parma, died 1534) | David, Giovanni (Italian, 1743–1790) | Del Vaga, Perino (Italian, 1501–1547) | Guercino (Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco) (Italian, 1591–1666) | Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564) | Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma, 1503–1540) | Poussin, Nicolas (French, 1594–1665) | Romano, Giulio (Italian, Roman, ca. 1499–1546) | Rosa, Salvator (Italian, 1615–1673) | Salviati, Francesco (Francesco de' Rossi) (Italian, Florentine, 1510–1563) | Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Italian, 1696–1770)

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An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Over the past twenty years, Julie and David Tobey have assembled one of the preeminent collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. Ranging across the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, this exhibition, consisting of approximately seventy drawings, covers all the principal centers of Italian art—Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Parma, Venice, Genoa, Milanand features masterpieces by a distinguished roster of great draftsmen, among them Correggio, Bernini, Guercino, Guido Reni, Canaletto, and Tiepolo. Impressive in its variety, the gamut of subject matter includes figure studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute, botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions.

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