This exhibition features drawings and watercolours created as book illustrations by some of the most famous artists of the 18th and 19th centuries. It extends from Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s meticulously detailed chalk drawings of creatures, inspired by Fontaine’s Fables, to the Symbolist illustrations of Gustave Doré and Aubrey Beardsley. Find out more from the Getty Center’s website.
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The Plague-stricken Animals (1731), Jean-Baptiste Oudry. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Nail Makers (Le Cloutier Grossier) (c. 1763), Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Dream (1896), Aubrey Beardsley. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
After the Shipwreck – Design for an Illustration of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (c. 1875), Gustave Doré. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
In praise of Ryoji Koie, the enfant terrible of Japanese ceramics