Prints

cover of the catalogue for the exhibition The Unfinished Print with a print of a man with a long white beard and wearing a black hat, which he touches with his left hand

The Unfinished Print
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When is a work of art complete? And when do further additions detract from the desired result? These questions lie at the heart of aesthetic theory and have preoccupied artists, critics, and collectors for centuries.

image of soldiers in repose
Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France
Painting of Soldiers
Frick to Present First Show on Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Military Works
Painting of men and women at a ball
Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France
Summer Exhibition, The Unfinished Print, Asks the Question, "When Is a Work of Art Complete?" Prints by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch, and Others