The Horvitz Collection is the most comprehensive private American collection of early French drawings. The exhibition will present a selection of approximately 115 works from the early seventeenth to the late eighteenth century by approximately seventy artists. In addition to remarkable drawings by such well-known draftsmen as Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Antoine Watteau, François Le Moyne, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Jacques-Louis David, the exhibition will include superb examples of the work of lesser-known figures such as Grégoire Huret, Louis Galloche, Jean-Laurent Legeay, Gabriel-François Doyen, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, François-André Vincent, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, and Carle Vernet.

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) Head of an Old Man, 1.1993.32

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue written by a team of twenty-five international scholars. After opening in Cambridge, the exhibition will travel to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Mastery and Elegance was organized by Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Jeffrey E. Horvitz Research Associate, and William Robinson, curator of drawings.

See also Exhibition Catalog and Press Release.

Travel schedule: Cambridge, MA
December 5, 1998 - January 31, 1999
Harvard University Art Museums
At the Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Toronto, Canada
February 20 - April 18, 1999
Art Gallery of Ontario

Paris, France
May 1 - June 25, 1999
Musée Jacquemart-André

Edinburgh, Scotland
July 9 - September 5, 1999
National Gallery of Scotland

New York, NY
October 8 - December 12, 1999
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts

Los Angeles, CA
February 24 - April 24, 2000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art