Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection

This exhibition presents European works on paper spanning the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, including a number of recent acquisitions in the area of French drawings. A highlight of the group is Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Rinaldo in the Enchanted Forest, a virtuoso display of the bold and free handling—in this case of sepia wash—that found favor in the Rococo period. The development of the Neoclassical style is also explored through a selection of French drawings and prints for ornament and the decorative arts, ranging from playful to serious in approach.

Also presented is a selection of recently acquired drawings from Denmark's "Golden Age," including works by C. W. Eckersberg and Christen Købke, and German and Austrian nude studies from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.

Further highlights include a selection of prints from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries featuring odd human-animal encounters, including Max Klinger's Bear and Elf (1887), a surreal image of a woman taunting a bear in a treetop, and David Hockney’s Jungle Boy (1964), showing a naked man staring down a snake.

Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Künstler: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, C. W. Eckersberg, Christen Kobke, Max Klinger, David Hockney ...