Past Exhibition
Dutch Figure Drawings from the Seventeenth Century
Jan Lievens, River God with an Eagle, pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1981.32.1
Details
Jan Lievens, River God with an Eagle, pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1981.32.1
Overview: 100 watercolors and drawings represented figure studies by Rembrandt van Rijn, Hendrik Goltzius, Willem Buytewech, Jacques de Gheyn, and their contemporaries.
Organization: The works were assembled by Peter Schatborn, curator of drawings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. 3 additional works were selected from the Gallery's holdings by Andrew Robison and Arthur Wheelock Jr., in collaboration with Schatborn.
Sponsor: The catalogue was supported by a contribution from the Cultural Affairs and Information Bureau of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Attendance: 88,548
Catalog: Dutch Figure Drawings from the Seventeenth Century, by Peter Schatborn. The Hague: Government Publishing Office, 1981.
Other Venues:
- Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, 12/19/1981–02/21/1982
