French Drawings From The Age Of Claude, Poussin, Watteau And Fragonard Highlights From The Collection Of The Harvard Art Museums

The Harvard Art Museums house one of the largest collections of works on paper in North America, including a significant number of drawings by notable masters of the French school. Among them are Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

After an introductory essay tracing the formation of this group of drawings, this catalogue provides detailed entries for over 100 outstanding examples from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, encompassing a range of genres and motifs - landscapes, figure studies, historical and mythological scenes - many of which were produced for important commissions or mark key moments in the development of style and taste in early modern France.