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Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the remarkable number and quality of drawings they owned from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition to an important group of early German drawings, the collection includes a "Saint Paul" from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous "Scupstoel" from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden, the only design for a decorative sculpture to survive from the fifteenth century. The great artists of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Lorrain, and Rembrandt among them, are also represented, Rembrandt by seven drawings, including the large study of Leonardo's "Last Supper" that would stay in his mind all through his career. Drawings by Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Sandby, and George Romney are among the many from eighteenth-century France and England. The volume discusses all 153 drawings at length, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing the discussion with comparative illustrations of related works.
Preface and AcknowledgmentsEgbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Catalogue
Central Europe, Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesFritz Koreny
The Netherlands, Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesEgbert Haverkamp-Begemann
The Northern Netherlands, Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesEgbert Haverkamp-Begemann
France, Sixteenth to Eighteenth CenturyMary Tavener Holmes and Donald Posner
England, Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesDuncan Robinson
Other European Drawings
ConcordanceBibliographyIndex
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann is John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Mary Tavener Holmes is an independent scholar specializing in eighteenth-century French paintings and drawings.
Fritz Koreny is Curator of Early German and Netherlandish Drawings and Prints, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, and Professor of Art History, Vienna University.
Donald Posner is Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts and Deputy Director, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Duncan Robinson is Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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Koeppe, Wolfram. "Collecting for the Kunstkammer." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.
Possibly French
Date: 18th centuryAccession Number: 1975.1.563
Probably eighteenth century (1700–1799)
Accession Number: 1975.1.980
Probably French
Date: late 17th centuryAccession Number: 1975.1.315
Possibly Unknown Spanish
Date: 17th centuryAccession Number: 1975.1.978
Date: late 15th–early 16th centuryAccession Number: 1975.1.250
England (eighteenth century)
Accession Number: 1975.1.890
England, after Joshua Reynolds (eighteenth century)
Date: after 1779Accession Number: 1975.1.875
Date: ca. 1780Accession Number: 1975.1.883
Date: second half 18th centuryAccession Number: 1975.1.891
