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Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection

December 2, 2007 – May 1, 2008
West Building, Ground Floor, Hammer Galleries

Leonardo da Vinci, Sheet of Studies [recto], probably 1470/1480, pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.2.a

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

Overview: Portraits and figure drawings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Vincent van Gogh, and others were chosen for this installation, one of a continuing series presenting selections from the collection of drawings donated to the National Gallery of Art by Armand Hammer.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art. Stacey Sell, assistant curator of old master drawings, was exhibition curator.

Michelangelo
Italian, 1475 - 1564
Raphael
Italian, 1483 - 1520
Gogh, Vincent van
Dutch, 1853 - 1890