The New York Observer ranks the top drawing exhibitions in New York’s Metropolitan museum’s history:
- Treasures of Tutankhamun — 1,360,957 visitors from Dec. 20, 1978 to April 14, 1979.
- The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci — 1,077,521 visitors from Feb. 7, 1963 to March 4, 1963.
- The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art — 896,743 visitors from Feb. 26, 1983 to May 12, 1983.
- Painters in Paris: 1895-1950 — 883,620 visitors from March 7, 2000 to Jan. 14, 2001.
- Origins of Impressionism — 794,108 visitors from Sept. 27, 1994 to Jan. 8, 1995.
- The Horses of San Marco — 742,221 visitors from Feb. 1, 1980 to Aug. 31, 1980.
- Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art — 703,256 visitors from April. 19 to Aug. 15, 2010.
Institutional Memories: Met’s Picasso a Sixth Runner Up (NY Observer)
