Edinburgh to exhibit French drawings

Art fans may like to attend an exhibition of French drawings while staying in Edinburgh hostels.

French Drawings: Poussin to Seurat is due to open in the National Gallery of Scotland on February 5th and will run until May 1st.

It is a collection of drawings by French masters, including Boucher, Ingres, Corot, Pissarro, Poussin and Seurat.

The exhibition also features works of lesser known French artists such as Jeaurat, Lancrenon, Hesse and Dulac.

A statement from the gallery said: "[Subjects] range from the courtly art of the sixteenth century to the more down-to-earth imagery of the Realists and Impressionists in the nineteenth century.

"There are preparatory drawings for tapestries and for ambitious Salon pictures, as well as figure studies made in the studio or landscape sketches inspired by study in the open air."

The free exhibition went on show for the first time in the Wallace Collection in London.
 

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