The Grey Art Gallery in New York Shows Four Centuries of French Drawings

artwork: Alexandre-Louis Leloir - "Moroccan Girl, Playing a Stringed Instrument", 1875 - Watercolor, gouache and graphite on ivory wove paper 9 5/8" x 13 9/16". - Blanton Museum of Art collection. - On view at the Grey Art Gallery in New York until July 14th.


New York, NY.- New York University’s Grey Art Gallery is pleased to present “Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art” until  July 14th. Organized by The Blanton, and comprising fifty-eight works drawn primarily from the museum’s Suida-Manning Collection, the exhibition explores the expressive and technical range of French drawing through preliminary sketches, compositional studies, figure studies, and finished drawings from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Among the artists included are Jacques Callot, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-Louis Forain, and Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.

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