Museum Exhibition
Lines of Connection: Drawing & Printmaking
Art Institute of Chicago
March 15, 2025 – June 1, 2025
The first exhibition to focus on the connections between drawing and printmaking brings together around 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in the Western tradition to explore their creative process and the links between the two mediums.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Pedro Romero killing the halted bull, plate 30 from The Art of Bullfighting
1814/16, published 1816
Etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper
Image: 20.9 × 30.7 cm (8 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.); Plate: 24.8 × 35.5 cm (9 13/16 × 14 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 44.6 cm (12 13/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
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Pieter de Jode, I
The Holy Family
c. 1585-1595
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed): 23.2 × 16.7 cm (9 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
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Josiah Boydell
The Captive, from Sterne
1786
Black chalk and opaque black and white watercolor, with touches of ochre watercolor, on tan laid paper
35.5 × 46 cm (14 × 18 1/8 in.)
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Hans Burgkmair, the elder
Lovers Surprised by Death
1510
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in shades of brown on ivory laid paper
21.7 × 15.7 cm (8 9/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
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Wenceslaus Hollar
A Chalice
1640
Etching on ivory laid paper
Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 44.8 × 22.7 cm (17 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
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Jean Antoine Watteau
The Old Savoyard
c. 1715
Red and black chalk on cream laid paper
35.9 × 22.1 cm (14 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
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Parmigianino
Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff
1524/31
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper
14.1 × 11.8 cm (5 9/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
View at museum37 documented works in this exhibition
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