Exhibitions/ Selected Artworks

Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection

At The Met Fifth Avenue
October 4, 2017–January 7, 2018

Exhibition Objects


59 Objects

Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man

Circle of Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?))

Date: ca. 1420 Medium: Metalpoint, touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with white (partially oxidized in the figure at the lower left), on reddish violet prepared paper. Some lines retraced in pen and brown ink at a later date. Accession Number: 1975.1.335

A Gazelle in Profile, Moving Toward the Right

Circle of Michelino da Besozzo (Michelino de Mulinari) (Italian, Lombardy, active 1388–1450)

Date: early 15th century Medium: Tip of the brush and brown, gray (both in various shades), and black ink; contours with metalpoint (?or black chalk?); touches of white chalk; brown and light brownish gray wash; on vellum. Accession Number: 1975.1.402

Bearded Nude Male Figure Running Toward the Right

Veronese School, possibly a follower of Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia) (Italian, Paris or Pavia ca. 1374/75–after 1438 Verona)

Date: mid-15th century Medium: Pen and brown ink. Accession Number: 1975.1.422

Group of Draped Figures

Attributed to Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) (Italian, Messina ca. 1430–1479 Messina)

Date: early 1460s Medium: Tip of the brush (or fine pen?) and brown ink Accession Number: 1975.1.265

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio Pollaiuolo (Italian, Florence ca. 1432–1498 Rome)

Date: early to mid 1480s Medium: Pen and brown ink, light and dark brown wash; outlines of the horse and rider pricked for transfer. Accession Number: 1975.1.410

A Bear Walking

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise)

Date: ca. 1482–85 Medium: silverpoint on light buff prepared paper Accession Number: 1975.1.369

The Descent into Limbo

Circle of Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua)

Date: mid-15th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash Accession Number: 1975.1.274

Vulcan Building a Fence Around the Mount of Venus

Circle of Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venice, 1424/26–1516 Venice)

Date: late 15th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk. Accession Number: 1975.1.320

Head of a Man Wearing a Cap

Circle of Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) (Italian, Florence 1448/49–1494 Florence)

Date: ca. 1495–1505 Medium: Metalpoint, heightened with brush and white, on reddish orange prepared paper. Accession Number: 1975.1.329

Head of a Man in Profile

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) (Italian, Cortona, active by 1470–died 1523 Cortona)

Date: 1490s Medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, heightened with white. Accession Number: 1975.1.420

Design for a Wall Monument

Francesco di Giorgio Martini (Italian, Siena 1439–1501 Siena)

Date: ca. 1490 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, blue gouache, on vellum Accession Number: 1975.1.376

Landscape with Figure

The Veneto (1500–1529)

Date: early 16th century Medium: Pen and brown ink Accession Number: 1975.1.275

Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road

Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) (Italian, Florence 1473–1517 Florence)

Date: ca. 1501 Medium: Pen and brown ink, traces of black chalk; mounted on an album page Accession Number: 1975.1.270

The Flagellation

Lombardy (?)

Date: late 15th century Medium: Point of the brush and brown and light gray ink, brown and grayish brown wash, over traces of black chalk, heightened with white (partly oxidized) Accession Number: 1975.1.417

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1529–1566 Rome)

Date: ca. 1557–58 Medium: Pen and brown and gray ink, brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white, on buff paper. Accession Number: 1975.1.553

Saint Paul

Circle of Jan van Eyck (Netherlandish, Maaseyck (?) 1390–Brussels 1441)

Date: ca. 1430 Medium: Pen and brown ink, point of the brush and brown ink, with purple and gold heightening in the hilt of the sword, on vellum Accession Number: 1975.1.841

Studies of Saint John the Baptist

Copy after Rogier van der Weyden (Tournai, 1399–Brussels, 1464)

Date: after 1455 Medium: Metalpoint on gray prepared paper Accession Number: 1975.1.847

Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel)

Circle of Rogier van der Weyden, possibly Vranke van der Stockt (Netherlandish, ca. 1420–1495)

Date: 1444–50 Medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk. Accession Number: 1975.1.848

Bear Hunt

Flanders (Brussels?) (1470–1490)

Date: ca. 1470–90 Medium: Pen and brown ink Accession Number: 1975.1.822

Bust of a Man in a Hat Gazing Upward

Martin Schongauer (German, Colmar ca. 1435/50–1491 Breisach)

Date: ca. 1480–90 Medium: Pen and carbon black ink, over pen and brown ink, on paper prepared with sanguine wash. Accession Number: 1975.1.872

Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow (recto); Six Studies of Pillows (verso)

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: 1493 Medium: Pen and brown ink Accession Number: 1975.1.862

Fortuna in a Niche

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: 1498 Medium: Pen and greenish brown ink Accession Number: 1975.1.861

Head of a Young Woman

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: 1522 Medium: Black chalk highlighted with white chalk (abraded) on green prepared paper. Accession Number: 1975.1.859

Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban (recto); Latin script (verso)

Master of the Death of Absalom (?) (active. ca. 1490-1510)

Date: ca. 1510 Medium: Brush and black brown ink heightened with white gouache on slate gray prepared paper. Accession Number: 1975.1.863

Ecstatic Christ

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) (German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg)

Date: ca. 1510–11 Medium: Pen and two shades of carbon black ink, traces of black chalk underdrawing Accession Number: 1975.1.855

Saint Christopher

Follower of Hans Baldung Grien (Upper Rhine, third quarter of the sixteenth century)

Date: third quarter 16th century Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and blackish brown and blackish gray wash, highlighted with opaque white, on reddish brown prepared paper Accession Number: 1975.1.854

The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: 1634–35 Medium: Red chalk Accession Number: 1975.1.794

Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: 1644 Medium: Pen and inks ranging from light to dark brown, brown washes, corrected in white (oxidized, partially abraded), and touches of red chalk (in added structures to the left of the main cottage). Accession Number: 1975.1.792

Perseus and the Origin of Coral

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

Date: ca. 1671 Medium: Black chalk, sepia and black ink, sepia and gray wash heightened with white Accession Number: 1975.1.661

Seated Woman

Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Date: 1716–17 Medium: Black, red and white chalk Accession Number: 1975.1.763

Warwick Castle: The East Front

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice)

Date: 1752 Medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash Accession Number: 1975.1.297

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)

Date: ca. 1740 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk. Accession Number: 1975.1.443

Punchinellos Felling (or Planting) a Tree

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727–1804 Venice)

Date: late 18th–early 19th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over rough black chalk Accession Number: 1975.1.468

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (with a Truncated Pyramid on the Right)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727–1804 Venice)

Date: ca. 1770 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over rough black chalk Accession Number: 1975.1.474

The Betrothal of the Virgin

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727–1804 Venice)

Date: ca. 1770 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk. Accession Number: 1975.1.514

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Hubert Robert (French, Paris 1733–1808 Paris)

Date: 1757 Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, pale rose watercolor and white heightening over black chalk. Accession Number: 1975.1.693

The Dreamer

Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)

Date: late 1770s Medium: Pencil and sepia wash Accession Number: 1975.1.627

Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)

Date: ca. 1788 Medium: Black chalk and brown ink on paper Accession Number: 1975.1.607

Self-Portrait in a Cocked Hat

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)

Date: ca. 1790 Medium: Pen and brown (iron gall?) ink on paper Accession Number: 1975.1.976

Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard

Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris)

Date: 1827–28 Medium: Brush and brown wash with watercolor over graphite on heavy watercolor paper Accession Number: 1975.1.616

Study of Bodies "Liberty Leading the People"

Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris)

Date: 1830 Medium: Point of brush and brown ink on off-white woven paper Accession Number: 1975.1.613

Study for "Raphael and the Fornarina"(?)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)

Date: ca. 1814(?) Medium: Graphite on white wove paper Accession Number: 1975.1.646

Dr. François Mêlier

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)

Date: 1849 Medium: Graphite with graphite framing lines, corrected with white, on buff wove paper Accession Number: 1975.1.648

Madame Félix Gallois

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)

Date: 1852 Medium: Graphite with touches of gold in oil to highlight jewelry, on buff wove paper. Accession Number: 1975.1.647

The Palatine Hill, Rome

Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)

Date: 1825–26 Medium: Graphite on tan wove paper Accession Number: 1975.1.588

A View of Moulins

Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, Valenciennes 1819–1916 Saint-Privé)

Date: ca. 1850–60 Medium: Graphite and watercolor on heavy wove paper Accession Number: 1975.1.644

Two Drinkers

Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: 1860–79 Medium: Pen and ink with wash over charcoal on paper Accession Number: 1975.1.601

Youth in an Attitude of Defense

Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

Date: 1859–60 Medium: Pencil on buff laid paper Accession Number: 1975.1.610

Youth with Arms Upraised

Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

Date: 1859–60 or 1861–62 Medium: Black chalk over pencil on fine beige paper Accession Number: 1975.1.609

Study of a Ballet Dancer (recto); Two Studies of Dancers (verso)

Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

Date: ca. 1873 Medium: Oil with opaque watercolor on prepared pink paper (recto); oil on prepared pink paper (verso) Accession Number: 1975.1.611

Foal (Le Poulain) [also called "The Colt"]

Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)

Date: 1882–83 Medium: Conté crayon on laid paper Accession Number: 1975.1.706

Study for "Poseuses"

Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris)

Date: 1886–87 Medium: Conté crayon on laid paper. Accession Number: 1975.1.704

The Dining Room

Paul Signac (French, Paris 1863–1935 Paris)

Date: 1886–87 Medium: Graphite and ink on Japan paper Accession Number: 1975.1.710

Road in Etten

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)

Date: 1881 Medium: Chalk, pencil, pastel, watercolor. Underdrawing in pen and brown ink. Accession Number: 1975.1.774

Pegasus and Bellerophon

Odilon Redon (French, Bordeaux 1840–1916 Paris)

Date: ca. 1888 Medium: Charcoal, charcoal with water wash, white chalk, conté crayon, and highlighting by erasure on buff papier bleuté, darkened. Accession Number: 1975.1.686

Young Girl in a Blue Dress

Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Date: ca. 1890 Medium: Watercolor with gouache highlights on thick cream wove paper Accession Number: 1975.1.688

Street Scene in Paris (Scène de rue à Paris)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss, Lausanne 1865–1925 Paris)

Date: 1897 Medium: Gouache and oil on cardboard. Accession Number: 1975.1.736

Still Life with Jug

Paul Signac (French, Paris 1863–1935 Paris)

Date: 1919 Medium: Graphite and watercolor Accession Number: 1975.1.722

Reflection in the Mirror

Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)

Date: early 1923 Medium: Charcoal on paper Accession Number: 1975.1.669