Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert
Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the
remarkable number and quality of drawings they owned from the
fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition to an
important group of early German drawings, the collection includes a
"Saint Paul" from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the
famous" Scupstoel" from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden, the
only design for a decorative sculpture to survive from the
fifteenth century. The great artists of the seventeenth century,
Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Lorrain, and Rembrandt
among them, are also represented, Rembrandt by seven drawings,
including the large study of Leonardo's "Last Supper" that would
stay in his mind all through his career, whenever he depicted
groups of figures conversing with each other. Drawings by Antoine
Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, and Gabriel de Saint-Aubin are
among the many from eighteenth-century France.
This volume is the ninth to be published in a projected series
of sixteen that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection
at the Metropolitan Museum. It discusses all 140 drawings at
length, placing each in its art historical setting and
complementing the discussion with comparative illustrations of
related works."
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