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Gallery Talk: Materials, Techniques, and History of Augustin Edouart’s Silhouettes

Augustin Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart, William Buckland and his Wife and son Frank, Examining Buckland’s Natural History Collection, 1828–29. Silhouette, cut black paper pasted down on cream paper ground; a few elaborations in black pen and wash. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mary L. Smith Fund, 66.964, TL41686.2.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Penley Knipe, the Philip and Lynn Straus Conservator of Works on Paper and head of the paper lab, will give today’s gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the 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. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.