The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts holds the exhibition Drawings by French Masters from Albertina Museum, Vienna.
The Albertina Museum boasts the world’s richest collection of graphic art with more than one million drawings and prints. Thus it made it possible to give a picture of the main styles, trends and techniques of classical French graphic art. The visitors will see how various art movements were reflected in graphic art: from mannerism and baroque to classicism, romanticism and realism.
The exhibition presents 84 works by the most notable graphic artists of the late 16th – middle 19th century: Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, and Jean-François Millet.
The exhibition runs till February 15, 2015.
Author: Vera Ivanova