Innocence and Experience: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

This installation considers how artists working in early Renaissance Italy, late Georgian Britain, and nineteenth-century Europe and America sought new approaches to record and shape visual imagery. Sections also focus on representations of motherhood and on portraiture.

Early Italian drawings, a treasured copy of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, prints and drawings by nineteenth-century European, British, and American artists convey the intimate relationship of mother and child. From formal portraits to scenes of the private sphere, these works communicate the tenderness and tribulations of early motherhood. Finally, a group of etched portraits brings together artists, especially printmakers, in the circle of Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas.

The exhibition runs from February 9 - May 16, 2023 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave, NY, New York.

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