Key works from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s impressive holdings of 19th-century French drawings reveal how the development of new kinds of chalk, pastel, paper and other materials encouraged artists to experiment. The exhibition (20 January–11 June 2023) brings together 50 works; highlights include Adolphe Appian’s delicate Three Fishermen along the Banks at the Edge of a Forest (1868) which uses white chalk and charcoal on woven paper, Toulouse-Lautrec’s colourful pastel work Monsieur Boileau at the Café (1893) and Edgar Degas’s Sheet of Studies and Sketches (1858), completed during his first trip to Italy in 1858. Find out more on the Cleveland’s website.
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Sheet of Studies and Sketches (1858), Edgar Degas. Cleveland Museum of Art
Monsieur Boileau at the Café (1893), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Cleveland Museum of Art
Three Fishermen along the Banks of a River at the Edge of a Forest (1868), Adolphe Appian. Cleveland Museum of Art