To Delight the Eye: French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, December 17, 2005–March 12, 2006
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May 31, 2006
François Boucher. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour. c. 1758. Oil on canvas. 81.2 x 64.9 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap, 1966.47. Photo: Katya Kallsen © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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To Delight the Eye is a charming exhibition of six major paintings and twenty-four drawings donated to the Fogg Art Museum by the Harvard alumnus Charles E. Dunlap (1889–1966). The exhibition, mounted by Alvin L. Clark, Jr., the Jeffery E. Horvitz Research Curator in the Department of Drawings at the Fogg, focuses primarily on artworks produced during the reigns of Louis XV (r. 1715–74) and his successor, Louis XVI (r. 1774–93), but extends into the...