Past Exhibition

Faces and Figures

Five sketches in brown ink are spaced around a vertically oriented sheet of paper. In the top left quadrant, a bearded man faces our right in profile. He has short, curly hair, a deeply lined face, a pronounced underbite, and the tip of his long nose points down. Two independent, wrinkle-lined eyes are sketched in the top right quadrant of the page. Below are two drawings of women with their shoulders angled away from us to the right. Near the bottom left and smaller in scale, a woman looks over her shoulder at us with a slight smile on her lips. In the bottom right quadrant, a woman with her hair pulled back under a snood looks to our right in profile with her chin tipped up. The neckline of both women’s bodices dip across the shoulder blades in the back. The paper is speckled with faint brown stains and spots.
Leonardo da Vinci, Sheet of Studies [recto], probably 1470/1480, pen and brown ink over leadpoint with blind stylus on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.2.a

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    West Building, Ground Floor, Hammer Galleries
Five sketches in brown ink are spaced around a vertically oriented sheet of paper. In the top left quadrant, a bearded man faces our right in profile. He has short, curly hair, a deeply lined face, a pronounced underbite, and the tip of his long nose points down. Two independent, wrinkle-lined eyes are sketched in the top right quadrant of the page. Below are two drawings of women with their shoulders angled away from us to the right. Near the bottom left and smaller in scale, a woman looks over her shoulder at us with a slight smile on her lips. In the bottom right quadrant, a woman with her hair pulled back under a snood looks to our right in profile with her chin tipped up. The neckline of both women’s bodices dip across the shoulder blades in the back. The paper is speckled with faint brown stains and spots.
Leonardo da Vinci, Sheet of Studies [recto], probably 1470/1480, pen and brown ink over leadpoint with blind stylus on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.2.a

Overview: 12 figural drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection comprised this presentation, one of a continuing series of changing exhibitions.

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

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