Figure Studies and Compositional Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection

November 8, 1992 – May 16, 1993
West Building, Ground Floor, Hammer Galleries

Leonardo da Vinci, *Sheet of Studies* [recto], probably 1470/1480, pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.2.a

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: 13 figure and compositional studies by artists from the 15th through the 20th century included work by Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso. The exhibition was part of the continuous series of changing exhibitions of works of art from the Armand Hammer collection.

Organization: Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings at the National Gallery, coordinated the exhibition.