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Gallery Talk: You’re So Vain

François Boucher, French, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, 1750, with later additions. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap, 1966.47.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

In honor of Valentine’s Day, four curatorial fellows will offer a special, one-hour talk exploring depictions of vanity in art.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Offered by:
Joanna Seidenstein, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art
Sophie Lynford, Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art
Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art
Frances Gallart Marques, Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art

Free with museum admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museum staff will be on hand to collect tickets.