Spanish Master Drawings From Dutch Collections (1500 - 1900)
Design: Gracia Lebbink
Bound, illustrated (colour and b/w), 128 pages, size: 32.5 x 24.5 cm text in English, ISBN 90-5662-323-0, € 30.00 OUT OF PRINT
NAi Publishers in association with Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala (USA) and the Meadows Museum, Dallas (USA)
Spanish Master Drawings from Dutch Collections (1500 - 1900) offers a unique overview of more than 50 drawings by Spanish artists from the collections of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Print Room of Leiden University, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, and the Collection Frits Lught in Paris. The drawings span four centuries and chart the development of the genre in Spain. Among them are masterpieces from the Spanish Golden Age, including work by Jusepe de Ribera and Bartolomé Murillo, as well as from the renowned Madrid School. The collections also include unique drawings by the sculptors Alonso Berruguete and Pedro de Meña. Other standout items are the 19th-century drawings, most of them by Francisco de Goya, the most celebrated artist of the age. An introductory essay gives a historical overview of the role drawing has played in Spanish art. This section also charts the history of collecting Spanish drawings in Spain and beyond, including an analysis of the acquisition of Spanish drawings in the Netherlands. It has led to fresh insights and remarkable conclusions regarding what has until now been an underexposed area of Dutch art collections.
Exhibitions:
14 September 2003 - 9 November 2003: Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
21 November 2003 - 18 January 2004: The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
21 May 2004 - 1 August 2004: Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Spanish Master Drawings from Dutch Collections (1500 - 1900) offers a unique overview of more than 50 drawings by Spanish artists from the collections of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Print Room of Leiden University, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, and the Collection Frits Lught in Paris. The drawings span four centuries and chart the development of the genre in Spain. Among them are masterpieces from the Spanish Golden Age, including work by Jusepe de Ribera and Bartolomé Murillo, as well as from the renowned Madrid School. The collections also include unique drawings by the sculptors Alonso Berruguete and Pedro de Meña. Other standout items are the 19th-century drawings, most of them by Francisco de Goya, the most celebrated artist of the age. An introductory essay gives a historical overview of the role drawing has played in Spanish art. This section also charts the history of collecting Spanish drawings in Spain and beyond, including an analysis of the acquisition of Spanish drawings in the Netherlands. It has led to fresh insights and remarkable conclusions regarding what has until now been an underexposed area of Dutch art collections.
