Graphics by French masters from the Vienna Albertin Museum at an exhibition in the Pushkin Museum

MOSCOW. Since November 18 at the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin can visit the exhibition of graphic works made by French masters in the 16-19 centuries. The exhibits arrived in Moscow from Austria, where a huge collection of graphics is stored in the Albertina Museum in Vienna. The number of drawings and prints in the collection of the Albertina Museum is more than a million items.

Austrian colleagues provided for display at the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin 84 graphic works by famous artists. Among them are such names as Claude Lorrren, Eugene Delacroix, Francois Boucher, and other, no less famous, graphic artists. However, the exposition was created not only from works that arrived from Austria. It included artifacts belonging to their own collection of the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin.

The Pushkin Museum has a substantial number of paintings by French masters. Thanks to cooperation with the Albertina Museum, visitors to the exhibition were given the opportunity to see how graphic design is associated with paintings. The exhibition includes paintings, sketches for which came from the Vienna Museum.

Vitaliy Mishin, who is the curator of the exhibition, said at the opening that the painting “Venus by the Volcano”, owned by the State Museum of Fine Arts, was presented at the exhibition, and a drawing had arrived from Vienna, on the basis of which it was created. The figure shows how the design of the future picture was born, how work was carried out on its composition.

On some drawings, a square grid is applied - in those days, a graphic work was prepared for its transfer to another format. The organizers of the exhibition placed part of the works in the hall where the exposition of French art is located. Thanks to this technique, one can compare paintings and graphic works created by one author.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru