Drawings and Prints: Selections From the Permanent Collection August 27, 2011

This exhibition will include a selection of drawings made by Northern artists visiting Italy in the eighteenth century. Some were attracted by the crumbling ruins of well-known ancient buildings like the Colosseum, while others were drawn to more anonymous corners of the verdant countryside. Also on display will be a recently acquired pastel study of a French Dragoon by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (French, 1767–1824) for "The Revolt of Cairo," shown with other military-themed images from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.

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