March 22 through July 6, 2003
At The Fogg Art Museum (more about the Fogg)

Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout (1621 - 1674). Woman Doing Handwork, c.1655. Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, 18 x 14.7 cm. Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, The Maida and George Abrams Collection. 25.1998.55

This exhibition presents over 100 works from the private collection of Maida and George Abrams, a couple from Boston, Massachusetts, who have assembled their collection during a period of more than forty years. In 1999 the Abramses gave the Fogg Art Museum 110 drawings. 16 of these works are included in the exhibition.

Included in the exhibition is a recently rediscovered work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, as well as drawings by other renowned masters-Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jacques de Gheyn II, Hendrick Goltzius, and Hendrick Avercamp among them-and by lesser-known draftsmen whose contributions are essential to understanding the art history of the period. Highlights include seven drawings by Rembrandt, a diverse group by his pupils, excellent examples of Dutch landscapes, and figure studies and scenes of daily life by genre artists such as Willem Buytewech and Adriaen van Ostade.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue published by the Harvard University Art Museums and distributed by Yale University Press.

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