"A New Drawing by Jean Cousin the Elder for the Saint Mamas Tapestries"

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).