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.