Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources

February 19 – August 6, 1995
East Building, Ground Floor

Annibale Carracci, *The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist*, 1590, etching and engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1984.82.1

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: This exhibition of 64 prints, from the National Gallery and other collections, brought together well-known prints and the prints that inspired them, and others that they in turn inspired.

Organization: Curators of the exhibition were Gregory Jecmen, assistant curator of old master prints at the National Gallery, and Nadine Orenstein, assistant curator of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.