Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection

November 16, 2000 – May 13, 2001
West Building, Ground Floor, Hammer Galleries

Raphael, *The Prophets Hosea and Jonah*, c. 1510, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white and squared for transfer on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.4

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

Overview: The exhibition, one of a continuing series of changing exhibitions of drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection, included 12 Italian drawings dating from 1475 to 1790. Among the artists represented were Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Andrea Sacchi, and Giovanni Battista Tieoplo.

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