The Show Explores The Crucial Role Drawing Played in the Art of Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens 

Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens
January 19 to April 29, 2018
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In a letter from September 13, 1621, describing a large painting of a lion hunt that he had just completed, Peter Paul Rubens expressed what he believed to be essential to his art: it had to be powerful and graceful. A constant quest to achieve an equilibrium of these two qualities lay at the heart of his work. The same can be said of Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens, who studied with Rubens and whose lives and careers were entwined with—and influenced by—the senior artist.