NYAB Event - "Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection" Exhibition

"Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection" Exhibition

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At The Frick Collection
Media: Drawing

An avid collector of works on paper from the age of fifteen, and an art historian whose scholarship continues to be cited today, Frits Lugt (1884–1970) played a formative role in the history of graphic arts. In 1957 Lugt established the Fondation Custodia, Paris, to care for and add to his collection of 6,000 Old Master drawings and 30,000 prints. Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection features the collection’s most significant eighteenth and nineteenth century French works on paper exhibited in North America. Selected by the curators of The Frick Collection, this exhibition of more than sixty works will include drawings and watercolors by well-known masters of the French School.

[Image: Jean-Antoine Watteau "Woman Lying on a Sofa" (c. 1717–18) red, black, and white chalk 21.7 x 31.1 cm. Fondation Custodia, Paris]