There
are only a few days remaining to see the excellent exhibition
Becoming a Woman in the Age of the Enlightenment at the
Harn Museum of Art and
I strongly recommend that you go. It closes on December 31. This is an
outstanding exhibition of work selected from the Horvitz Collection, some of
the work was recently exhibited at the Petit Palais exhibition
From Watteau to David earlier this year.
Becoming Woman.., curated by UF
Professor Melissa Hyde Center and
the late
Mary D. Sheriff, UNC Chapel-Hill, centers around issues pertinent
to women's lives of the 18th century including how women's lives are defined,
the standards by which they're measured as well as their social and family
rituals. The exhibition features sketches, finished drawings including
some amazing pastel drawings and paintings by 18th and 19th century artists
including Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré
Fragonard, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Gabrielle Capet, François-André Vincent and
Philibert-Louis Debucourt and more.
I have a couple of images to share but trust me the photographs of the drawings do not due them justice. The touch in these drawings are just exceptional, fresh as they day they were made and they warrant sustained looking.
Don't miss this show.
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Antoine Vestier, Allegory of the Arts, 1788, Oil on canvas, © The Horvitz Collection
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Marie-Gabrielle Capter, Self-portrait , circa 1790 © The Horvitz Collection |
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Installation shot |
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Louis-Léopold Boilly, Conversation in a Park, Oil on canvas, © The Horvitz Collection
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