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Degas Sketchbook

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Sketchbook, 1880 and after Twenty-one drawings in graphite with some charcoal and blue chalk, Thaw Collection, 2004.35

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM RECEIVES ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE PHILIP GLASS OPERATIC MASTERPIECE EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

In 1976 composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson redefined opera with the debut in Avignon, France, of Einstein on the Beach. The nearly five-hour, non-narrative work broke a host of operatic conventions and would become the most celebrated of the many collaborations between these two giants of the musical and theatrical stage.

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Edme Bouchardon's Vade Mecum

Browse drawings made by Edme Bouchardon in eighteenth-century Rome.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS SEVENTEEN MASTER DRAWINGS BY INGRES

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) is among an elite group of nineteenth-century French masters whose style is almost instantly recognizable. Arguably the greatest portraitist of his time, Ingres was a brilliant draftsman, and his drawings have long been prized along with his paintings.

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EIGHTY OUTSTANDING NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAWINGS FROM THE LOUVRE TO GO ON VIEW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S. AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

This fall The Morgan Library & Museum will host an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre's finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.

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Collections Spotlight, Spring 2026

January 13 through May 3, 2026

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and Renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.