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Up-Close Seminar: Unrivaled Beauty—The Drawings of Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Virtue Attacked by Vice, c. 1795. Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.884.

Seminar

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Please note that this event is at capacity.

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758–1823) is celebrated as the most innovative and virtuosic draftsman of his era, having produced exquisite chalk drawings and astoundingly complex pen drawings, and working often on blue paper. This seminar, led by Elizabeth Rudy, the Cunningham Assistant Curator of European Art, and paper conservator Anne Driesse, will explore the art-historical and technical aspects of Prud’hon’s originality by studying select works from the Harvard Art Museums collections, which contain one of the country’s most impressive groups of drawings by this French master.

The event will be held in the Art Study Center, Level 4.

Free admission, but capacity is limited to 15 and registration is recommended. To register, please call 617-495-1440.

Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the program to allow sufficient time to sign in at the Art Study Center reception desk. Note that there is a wait list for this program; spots unclaimed by 11am will be released to those on the wait list. Please be prepared to present a photo ID.

Lockers are available on the Lower Level, Level 1, and Level 4 to check bags, coats, umbrellas, and any food or drink.