Five Centuries of Drawings

About the exhibition

Five Centuries of Drawings is documented at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal in 1953. The identified selection includes Lorenzo Lotto’s Saint Martin Dividing His Cloak with a Beggar (about 1530; Brush with gray brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on light brown paper) and Aelbert Cuyp’s Panoramic View of Dordrecht and the River Maas (about 1645–1652; Brush and dark brown ink with grey wash and ochre watercolor heightened with gum arabic over black chalk, on laid paper). The linked works form a partial checklist reconstructed from museum object histories. The complete original catalogue and the remaining artworks require further research.