Drawings and Watercolours in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection - Hardcover

by Manuela Fidalgo (Author)

- This publication shows exquisite works of art by great masters such as Dürer, Fragonard, Millet, Watteau and others that can't be found on permanent display for conservation reasons This publication presents the drawings and watercolors gathered by Calouste Gulbenkian rarely put on display for conservation reasons. It is possible to identify in this publication some of the great examples of European drawings and watercolors produced between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries by great masters such as Dürer, Fragonard, Millet, Watteau and others. Contents: Essay: Calouste Gulbenkian and the art of drawing; Selected works; Chapters: sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Eighteenth century; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century.

Author Biography

Since the 1980's until she retired in 2014, the curator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Manuela Fidalgo, was responsible for keeping, studying and making the collections of graphic documents widely available, which include printed and illuminated European books, prints, watercolours and drawings. She was also responsible for several exhibitions at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum such as Designing the Décor in 2005-6 and Drawings and Watercolours in 2014.