European Drawings 2: Catalogue of the Collections
Hardcover
1992 · Malibu, CA
by Goldner, George R. with the assistance of Lee Hendrix and Gloria Williams
Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. Hardcover. VG/VG. Sage cloth, gilt letters on spne and front cover; sage and illus. dust jacket; ix, 362 pp. some color and over 140 bw plates. The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. The text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete ibliography. 148 works are included in this catalogue. (Inventory #: 157778)