Past Exhibition

The Touch of the Artist

This drawing is a sketch of several people facing the left, depicted from the chest up. The individuals are standing together in a group. Their hair is in a variety of styles, and they are dressed in draped garments. The person at the front of the group has their hands clasped together in front of their chest. The background is plain beige paper, and the lines of the drawing have been done in red.
Raphael, Eight Apostles, c. 1514, red chalk over stylus underdrawing and traces of leadpoint on laid paper, cut in two pieces and rejoined; laid down, Woodner Collection, 1993.51.2

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    East Building, Ground Floor
This drawing is a sketch of several people facing the left, depicted from the chest up. The individuals are standing together in a group. Their hair is in a variety of styles, and they are dressed in draped garments. The person at the front of the group has their hands clasped together in front of their chest. The background is plain beige paper, and the lines of the drawing have been done in red.
Raphael, Eight Apostles, c. 1514, red chalk over stylus underdrawing and traces of leadpoint on laid paper, cut in two pieces and rejoined; laid down, Woodner Collection, 1993.51.2

Overview: 117 drawings spanning 5 centuries were selected from the Woodner collections. The drawings were gifts or promised gifts to the National Gallery.

Organization: Curator for the exhibition was Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings at the National Gallery of Art.

Catalog: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995.

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