The
Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya
October 5, 2010, through January 9, 2011
Jusepe
de Ribera (c. 1591–1652), Head of a Man with Little Figures on His
Head, pen and ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk
underdrawing on prepared paper, 6 11/16 x 4 1/16 inches, Philadelphia
Museum of Art
The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth
through the nineteenth century — Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them —
created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These diverse drawings, which
may be broadly characterized as possessing a specifically "Spanish
manner," will be the subject of an exclusive exhibition at The Frick
Collection in the fall of 2010. The presentation will feature more than
fifty of the finest Spanish drawings from public and private
collections in the Northeast, among them The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
The Hispanic Society of America, The Morgan Library & Museum, the
Princeton University Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Opening the show are rare sheets by the early seventeenth-century
masters Francisco Pacheco and Vicente Carducho, followed by a number of
spectacular red chalk drawings by the celebrated draftsman Jusepe de
Ribera. The exhibition continues with rapid sketches and painting-like
wash drawings from the rich oeuvre of the Andalusian master Bartolomé
Esteban Murillo, along with lively drawings by Francisco de Herrera the
Elder and his son and the Madrid court artist Juan Carreño de Miranda,
among others.
The second part of the exhibition will present
twenty-two sheets by the great draftsman Francisco de Goya, whose
drawings are rarely studied in the illuminating context of the Spanish
draftsmen who came before him. These works, mostly drawings from his
private albums, attest to the continuity between his thematic interests
and those of his Spanish forebears, as well as to Goya's own enormously
fertile imagination. The exhibition is organized by Jonathan Brown,
Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, New York University;
Lisa A. Banner, independent scholar; and Susan Grace Galassi, Senior
Curator at The Frick Collection. It will be accompanied by a fully
illustrated catalogue with entries by the show's organizers and by Reva
Wolf, Professor of Art History, State University of New York at New
Paltz, and author of Goya and the Satirical Print in England and on
the Continent, 1730–1850, and by Andrew Schulz, Associate Professor
of Art History and Department Head at the University of Oregon and
author of Goya's Caprichos: Aesthetics, Perception, and the Body.
The exhibition is made possible, in part, by
the David L. Klein Jr. Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
The accompanying catalogue has been
generously underwritten by the Center for Spain in America.
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