“ The collection of drawings at the Getty Museum was commenced in 1981 with the purchase of Rembrandt’s Nude Girl with a Snake and has steadily expanded given that then, so that now, at the flip of the new millennium, it stands at a lot more than 6 hundred drawings and is, sheet for sheet, one particular of the very best wherever.
The Getty objective is to generate from the best illustrations a collection of the different Western European colleges of drawing ahead of 1900, with particular emphasis on the work of the most critical and accomplished draftsmen. The selection now includes superb examples of the perform of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Dürer, Rembrandt, Claude Lorraine, Watteau, Gainsborough, David, Millet, Manet, Van Gogh, and Degas.
This is the fourth in the series of catalogues describing the drawings in the Getty Museum. Most of the drawings reviewed in the current quantity had been chosen for the collection in the interval of 1994 to 1998 and include examples from the Italian, German, Dutch and Flemish, French, Spanish, and British educational institutions. Also integrated are a number of presents from non-public collectors, which mark the begin of a tradition that, it is hoped, will keep on in the foreseeable future. The catalogue entries for these new acquisitions are arranged initial by nationwide college and then by artist. The guide also consists of a bibliography and indexes of artists, previous homeowners, associated drawings, prints, and functions in other media.
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