ESSENCE OF LINE/ FRENCH DRAWINGS FROM INGRES TO DEGAS

Published on the occasion of an exhibition jointly organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and The Walters Art Museum, this book pr esents a brilliant panorama of sketches, watercolors, and presentation drawings, many of them little known outside a small circle of experts. It is correlated with an online archive of the entire corpus of nineteenth-century French drawings in the holdings of thes e Baltimore museums. Many patrons of the arts in nineteenth-century America built collections of paintings and sculpture imported primarily f...[Read more]