The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently opened an exhibit called Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna which I went to see this weekend. I don't usually find drawings particularly compelling, but this exhibit really intrigued me. In one of the Met's smaller special exhibitions galleries, the intimate three-room setting provided a welcoming environment that paralleled the intimacy that one finds when viewing drawings. Often preliminary sketches for larger, more ambitious paintings, drawings are more bare and raw, and allow you to see the artist's process in close detail. The 120 pieces in the exhibit ranged from the Renaissance to 1900, including artists such as Raphael, Parmigianino, Rembrandt, Watteau, Goya, Delacroix, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh, and Seurat, among many others. The exhibit is on view through April 26th.
The exhibit also included pastels and other forms of color drawings. This pastel drawing, Renoir's Nude Bathers Playing with a Crab, was one of my favorites.
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