Please join us for a media preview of   OLD MASTERS, NEWLY ACQUIRED     This Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:00–11:30 a.m.   Remarks by Morgan director William M. Griswold followed by Short curatorial presentation     RSVP: media@themorgan.org; (212) 590-0393     The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, NYC   Tea & coffee will be served Old Masters, Newly Acquired May 31–August 11, 2013       Old Masters, Newly Acquired presents more than one hundred recent additions to the Morgan’s renowned collection of drawings. Representing the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, the show features major gifts from several notable collectors, works that have entered the collection as gifts and bequests, and an important group of recent purchases.   Of particular note is a selection of late-nineteenth-century French drawings by such artists as Manet, Cézanne, Vuillard, and Redon; more than forty Danish drawings, including sheets by Golden Age masters C.W. Eckersberg and Johan Lundbye; and outstanding watercolors by British artists, notably John Martin and Samuel Palmer. Highlights among the purchases on view include a delicate sheet of studies by Perino del Vaga, a beautiful pastel by Benedetto Luti, and a dynamic compositional study by Charles-Joseph Natoire.   Read the full press release. Images: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) Study for Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, 1888 Pastel and charcoal, with watercolor and gouache The Morgan Library & Museum Thaw Collection, 2010 Photography: Graham S. Haber Benedetto Luti (Italian, 1666–1724) Head of the Virgin, 1714 Pastel The Morgan Library & Museum Purchased as the gift of Helen-Mae and Seymour Askin, Diane A. Nixon, Andrea Woodner, Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Marie Eveillard, and the Fellows Endowment Fund, 2012 Photography: Graham S. Haber Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) Just Because She Is Asked If Her Mother Is Well She Acts Like a Tigress, 1796–97 Gray wash The Morgan Library & Museum Thaw Collection, 2010 Photography: Schecter Lee Joseph Ducreux (French, 1735–1802) Portrait of a Gentleman, ca. 1802 Black, brown, red, and white chalk The Morgan Library & Museum Estate of Mrs. Vincent Astor, 2012 Photography: Graham S. Haber

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