Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Catalogue of the 90 old master drawings featured in the RISD Museum exhibition. Includes the atworks' title, date, materials, measurements, an analysis of each work, and photographs. The artworks are organized by country of origin.

Contributors

by Johnson, Deborah J.

Publisher & Date

Stinehour Press, 1983
WorldCat

Selected Objects

James Thornhill

Studies for Two Stained Glass Windows (Judgment of Midas and Judgment of Paris)

Rembrandt van Rijn

Landscape (Farm Buildings at the Dijk) (recto); Partial Landscape with Trees and Fence (verso)

Felice Giani

Vestal Virgins Showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate

Cesare Nebbia

Pope Pius V Crowns Cosimo I De'Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany
A black, red, and white chalk portrait of an aristocratic white woman gazing at the viewer. She has red flowers in her curly hair, a neck ruff, and pearl earrings.

Ottavio Leoni

Portrait of the Signora Licinia Leni Marchesa Martinenghi

Jean-Antoine Houdon

Sorrow Consoled by Justice Who Points to Fame (Project for the Tomb of Monsieur Guillard)
A sheet with various pen and ink study drawings. At left is a nude Hercules. At right are various annotations and sketches, including of a man wearing a plumed helmet.

Giovanni Battista Bertani

Double-Sided Sheet: Study for Hercules Victorious over the Hydra (recto); Study of Hercules a Roman Soldier’s Head, and Ornament (verso)

Hubert Robert

The Gallery of the Palazzo Dei Conservatori in Rome

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