This beautiful and scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, organized by Stephanie Buck, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings at The Courtauld Gallery, and Colin B. Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection. The drawings represent a survey of the extraordinary of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, British and French artists between the late Middle Ages and the early twentieth century. The catalogue features works executed in a range of styles and for a variety of purposes, including preliminary sketches, practice studies, aide-mémoires, designs for other artworks and finished pictures meant to be appreciated as independent works of art. Among the artists represented in the catalogue are Andrea Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Théodore Géricault, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, VIncent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
The catalogue is introduced with an essay by Stephanie Buck. Other authors include: Denise Allen, Colin B. Bailey, Caroline Campbell, Susan Grace Galassi, Julian Brooks, Christopher White, Chris Fischer, Margret Stuffmann and David Solkin.
Accompanying the exhibition, Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, held at The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14 June - 9 September 2012, and at The Frick Collection, New York, 2 October 2012 - 27 January 2013.