Overview: 113 old master drawings from the 16th through the 20th centuries were presented in this exhibition selected from an anonymous private collection. Included were 15 works given to the National Gallery by the collector during the previous decade. The exhibition was organized chronologically by century and included drawings created by some 85 artists including Gian Lorenzo Bernini, François Boucher, Edgar Degas, Jacob Cats, Caspar David Friedrich, and Käthe Kollwitz.

Gallery talks were presented in the exhibition during May, June, July, and August.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. The curators at the National Gallery of Art were Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of old master drawings, and Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings. Rhoda Eitel-Porter and Jennifer Tonkovich were curators for the presentation at the Morgan Library & Museum.