"Drawings and Prints" Selections from the Permanent Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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On view will be European works on paper spanning the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, including a number of recent acquisitions. Among the highlights is a group exploring depictions of gatherings of the Muses and related allegories of the art of painting in prints and drawings by Dutch and German artists around 1600. A selection of later German works focuses on Romantic imaginary landscapes. French art also figures prominently in the installation, with a survey of the development of color techniques in French printmaking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and a selection of oil sketches on paper by François Boucher and his contemporaries, several of which have been recently cleaned by the Department of Paintings Conservation.
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Schedule
from October 21, 2008 to January 11, 2009
Artist(s)
Edouard Manet, François Boucher et al.