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Reuniting the Masters: European Drawings from West Coast Collections" brings together related European drawings, separated over centuries and continents, that are now in the possession of the West Coast's great art collections. "Reuniting the Masters: European Drawings from West Coast Collections" is on display at the Crocker Art Museum until Feb. 5, 2017. In this image: Friedrich Heinrich Fuger, The Three Graces Find Amor, 1815. Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and pinkish wash and white opaque watercolor, 43.8 x 55.9 cm. Crocker Art Museum, purchase with funds provided by Alan Templeton 2012.128.

Adolph Menzel, Study of a Tree, circa 1885-1890. Black chalk, conté, graphite on off-white wove paper,18.3 x 11.5 cm. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund 1978.2.9

Friedrich Heinrich Fuger, Coriolanus Implored by his Family to Spare Rome, n.d. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk, 51 x 65.8 cm. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Committee for Art Acquisitions Fund 1980.78

François Boucher, Study of a Reclining Nude, 1732-35. Red and white chalk on beige laid paper, 32.5 x 24.6 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum 84.GB.21

Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (their Attributed to Joos de Momper II), Winter Landscape, n.d. Brush and point of brush and brown and blue washes, 16.5 x 26.67 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Fund 63.29.3

Adolph Menzel, Artist’s Model, Seen in Back View, Putting on an Eighteenth-century Uniform, circa 1845. Black, yellow, orange, rose and white chalks, 23.4 x 16.4 cm. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Arts Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Mortimer C. Leventritt Fund 1973.21

Adriaen Frans Boudewijns, Two Houses along a Country Lane, n.d. Pen and green ink, brush and point of brush and green, blue, and brown washes, 19 x 29.9 cm. Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection 1871.132

François Boucher, The Birth of Venus, 1732-35. Black and white chalks and charcoal on beige laid paper, 32.6 x 44.9 cm. Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection 1871.401

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Hanging, 1790-1799. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown washes over black chalk, 35.5 x 47.5 cm. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, gift of Mortimer C. Leventritt 1941.278

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Punchinello’s Children Begging for Sweets, no. 17 from the series Divertimento per li regazzi, circa 1800. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown washes over black chalk, 35.2 x 47.0 cm. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Museum Purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund 1967.17.134