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Drawing Transformed: Women Artists in 19th-Century France

Lunchtime Lecture

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  • Lecture
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12:00 p.m.
Location:  Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Gartner Auditorium

Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat (detail), c. 1877–80. Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895). Pastel on pale blue laid paper; sheet: 55.5 x 46.8 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.41

About The Event

Free; ticket required

Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries.

Drawing transformed radically in 19th-century France and became an independent medium used by artists for exploration and experimentation. Although this moment in art history is often associated with male artists, from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Edgar Degas, women played an important role in the history of drawing. Britany Salsbury, associate curator of prints and drawings, highlights their influence by taking a closer look at works by and influenced by women included in the exhibition Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 

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