Opening Event: Collecting French Art: A Conversation with Jeffrey Horvitz and Alvin L. Clark, Jr.

Location: Bellarmine Hall

Join us for a conversation between collector Jeffrey Horvitz and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., (Curator, The Horvitz Collection and The J.E. Horvitz Consultative Curator, Department of Drawings, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg) on the evening of the opening of the exhibition, "A French Affair: Drawings and Paintings from The Horvitz Collection," Thursday, January 24 at 5 p.m. in the Diffley Board Room in Bellarmine Hall.

History, mythology, poetry, and portraiture provided a vast range of subject matter for French artists of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. Drawn from the peerless holdings of The Horvitz Collection—one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of early modern French art—this exhibition features paintings and drawings in all these genres by such celebrated artists as Charles Le Brun, Nicolas de Largillière, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson. 

The impressive selection of over 50 drawings, some exhibited with related prints, focuses on a particular category—designs for book illustration—thereby highlighting not only the creative inventiveness of the artists who formulated lavish visual imagery from the written word, but also the rich literary traditions of France and the vibrant book publishing industry they spawned.

The exhibition, "A French Affair: Drawings and Paintings from The Horvitz Collection," will be open from January 25 - March 29, 2019. 


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For more information, contact Emily McKeon / 2269 / emckeon@fairfield.edu