DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection:
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NGAAH_121215_003.JPG: Figure Studies and Compositional Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection:
This exhibition is one of a series featuring selections from the collection of drawings formed by the late Armand Hammer. The collection as a whole consists of more than fifty old master and modern drawings from six centuries. Among the artists represented are such admired draftsmen as Rembrandt van Rijn, Albrecht Durer, and Vincent van Gogh. In 1986, after sharing these works with others in the United States and abroad in numerous exhibitions, Dr. Hammer chose to make the National Gallery their permanent home.
Because works of art on paper are damaged by sustained exposure to light, the drawings from the Hammer Collection are displayed in small, temporary exhibitions that focus on different schools and themes. This selection presents sketches and studies by such major artists as Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci.
NGAAH_121215_027.JPG: Michelangelo
Male Nude, c 1560
NGAAH_121215_036.JPG: Raphael
The Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, c 1907
NGAAH_121215_047.JPG: The full-scale preparatory drawing, or "cartoon," on the opposite wall is Raphael's final design for one of his best-known paintings, La Belle Jardiniere in the Louvre. A cartoon represents the end result of a long creative process during which the artist worked out the details of the composition through a series of preliminary sketches. In this case, Raphael continued to make minor changes even after the cartoon was completed: the laurel wreath encircling the head of John the Baptist in the drawing, for example, was eliminated in the painting.
To transfer the composition to the wooden panel on which La Belle Jardiniere was painted, the contour lines of the drawing were pricked and dusted with fine powder which passed through the tiny holes to the panel beneath. Because such drawings were necessarily damaged in the process, few Renaissance cartoons survive. This is the only full-scale compositional cartoon from the Renaissance in the United States.
NGAAH_121215_053.JPG: Pablo Picasso
Young Man, c 1906
NGAAH_121215_061.JPG: Georges Seurat
Study after "The Models", 1888
NGAAH_121215_068.JPG: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Christ Leading Peter, James, and John to the High Mountain for the Transfiguration, 1770s/1780s
NGAAH_121215_078.JPG: Paul Cezanne
Study of the "Ecorche", 1865/1870
NGAAH_121215_085.JPG: Edouard Manet
Man Wearing a Cloak, 1852/1858
NGAAH_121215_091.JPG: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Mrs. Charles Badham, 1816
NGAAH_121215_097.JPG: Veronese
Studies for Judith and Holofernes, David and Goliath, and Other Compositions, c 1582
NGAAH_121215_104.JPG: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Saint Jerome in the Desert Listening to the Angels, 1728/1735
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