Drawings Collection

The five sketchbooks and twenty-two single drawings catalogued in this volume, many of them for the first time, are among the more than 2000 works of art collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, that since 1975 have been housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. …

The collection of European drawings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, built up over a decade and a half, has increased steadily in both breadth and depth. While the holdings of drawings from the Italian Renaissance are particularly strong—including for instance, a double-sided sheet by Leonardo da Vinci—other schools, the French, in particular, are also well represented. …

This volume surveys an incomparable group of 18th-century Italian drawings, seen in 241 duotone illustrations and presented by two of the leading scholars in the field. Most of the drawings are Venetian, including major works by Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and his son Domenico Tiepolo. …

Considered to be without peer among American private collections of old masters, the Wrightsman Collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture is here catalogued by two of the most distinguished authorities in the field and fully illustrated in black-and-white and color.