do you speak French?

Do any of you speak French fluently?

And would you feel comfortable giving tours in French?

 

For the up-coming exhibition The Essence of Line: French Drawing from Ingres to Degas, we are considering the possibility of offering tours in French. Essence of Line will run from June 10 to September 17, 2006.

 

More info:

This exhibition comprises 100 nineteenth-century French drawings by more than 75 artists from the collections of The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art. Both collections were formed chiefly during the nineteenth century by private collectors of contemporary drawings. These collectors had a wide range of interests, including Orientalism, history, genre, landscape, and portraiture. Often the works were acquired directly from the artists. The remarkable breadth of the two collections offer a comprehensive survey of drawing during the nineteenth century: neoclassical landscapes through symbolist fantasies; sketches through highly finished narrative scenes; poignant views of peasant life through bawdy caricatures and social satire. These works illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation. Artists in the exhibition include Cézanne, Daumier, Degas, Delacroix, Ingres, Millet, Prud’hon, Redon, Seurat, and Toulouse-Lautrec, among others.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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