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Exhibitions/ Drawings and Prints

Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection

January 9–March 25, 2007

Exhibition Overview

This exhibition presents European drawings and prints ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, including a number of notable recent purchases and gifts. Works on view comprise sheets by the sixteenth-century Italian draftsmen Agnolo Bronzino and Girolamo Muziano, as well as a number of prints, including engravings after Baccio Bandinelli. The eighteenth century is represented by a selection of Venetian drawings, including works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Francesco Guardi that are recent gifts to the collection. Complementing these are French works of the same period, including newly acquired sheets by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jacques-Louis David.