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The Painter-Etcher
Prints by Dürer, Parmigianino, Brueghel, Barocci, Rubens, Rembrandt, Boucher, and
a host of other master painters are currently featured “The Early Modern Painter-Etcher,” an
exhibition on view atthe Arthur Ross Gallery. The exhibition was curated by Michael Cole
and by Madeleine Viljoen, in collaboration with Larry Silver and a number of current and
former Penn students.
The exhibition surveys etchings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries by more than
sixty European artists who, while not professional printmakers, took up the challenge of
making works on paper. It highlights “experimental” sheets, in some cases featuring the
single printed work a famous painter made. The loaned objects come from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and eleven
other major public and private collections.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, prepared in part during a spring 2006 Halpern-
Rogath Curatorial Seminar that Profs. Cole and Silver led. The book, published by Penn State
University Press, includes contributions by all the members of that class, as well as other
distinguished print scholars from the United States and Canada.
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