“Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix”

As a warm-up to its retrospective this fall of the French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), the Met presents this trove of his works on paper, which was recently gifted to the museum. Culled from the artist’s notebooks, the collection includes watercolors, graphite sketches and renderings in pen and ink. With subjects ranging from Orientalist scenes, to copies of the Old Master compositions to anatomical studies, the show is a testament to the centrality of drawing to Delacroix’s art.