Past Exhibition

Drawing and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters

The image depicts two nude female figures seated next to each other on a draped cloth. Both figures are shown in full body view. The figure on the left is seated with her legs bent and crossed, leaning slightly to her left, while one arm rests across her chest and the other is laid across her abdomen. The figure on the right is seated in a more reclined position with knees bent up towards her chest, one arm resting on her knee, and the other across her chest. Both figures appear to be nestled against a neutral-toned drapery that serves as a background, with soft, muted colors and shadows casting depth around them.
Jacob Jordaens, Susannah Crouching, c. 1640/1645, black and red chalk with watercolor, heightened with white, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5147

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    Ground Floor, Central Gallery
The image depicts two nude female figures seated next to each other on a draped cloth. Both figures are shown in full body view. The figure on the left is seated with her legs bent and crossed, leaning slightly to her left, while one arm rests across her chest and the other is laid across her abdomen. The figure on the right is seated in a more reclined position with knees bent up towards her chest, one arm resting on her knee, and the other across her chest. Both figures appear to be nestled against a neutral-toned drapery that serves as a background, with soft, muted colors and shadows casting depth around them.
Jacob Jordaens, Susannah Crouching, c. 1640/1645, black and red chalk with watercolor, heightened with white, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5147

Overview: This traveling exhibition was organized and circulated by the American Federation of Arts. 67 works by 16th- and 17th-century masters, from Pieter Bruegel (born c. 1525) to Meindert Hobbema (died 1709), were lent from the De Grez collection, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. The exhibition was augmented in Washington with graphics from the Rosenwald and Widener collections.

Catalog: Drawings and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters. Washington, DC: American Federation of Arts, 1954.

Other Venues:

  • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco

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