Petra, April 14, 1858 (detail), 1858, Edward Lear, pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over black chalk on blue paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum Petra, April 14, 1858 (detail), 1858, Edward Lear, pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over black chalk on blue paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum

Why did artists leave their homes? How did they use the medium of drawing to record their journeys, and how did mobility impact their draftsmanship? This exhibition, featuring works by Canaletto, Gauguin, Rubens, and Van Gogh, among others, explores such journeys through a selection of European drawings from the Museum’s permanent collection, spanning from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.

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