Frick Collection, New York will run an exhibition named 'Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection' from October 6, 2009 through January 10, 2010.
An avid collector of works on paper from the age of fifteen, and an art historian whose scholarship continues to be cited today, Frits Lugt (1884–1970) played a formative role in the history of graphic arts. In 1957 Lugt established the Fondation Custodia, Paris, to care for and add to his collection of 6,000 Old Master drawings and 30,000 prints.
Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection features the collection's most significant eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French works on paper exhibited in North America.
Selected by the curators of The Frick Collection, this exhibition of more than sixty works will include drawings and watercolors by well-known masters of the French School, including Jean-Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Edgar Degas, as well as important figures who are less familiar to the general public.
Colin B. Bailey, Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection, and Susan Grace Galassi, Senior Curator at The Frick Collection, will author the catalogue, which will open with an introductory essay on Frits Lugt as a collector by Maria van Berge-Gerbaud, Director of the Fondation Custodia.
The picture shows Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), Woman Lying on a Sofa, c . 1717–18, red, black, and white chalk, 21.7 x 31.1 cm, Fondation Custodia, Paris. -- www.frick.org
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