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Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment

Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA

Nov 10 2022
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French, The Girls’ Dormitory, c. 1770. Brown wash (unfiltered bistre) over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, 1954.106.

Join us for a focused talk on a drawing by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the exhibition Dare to Know, with curator Joachim Homann.

Join curator Joachim Homann for an in-depth discussion of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s drawing The Girls’ Dormitory, on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.

Featuring approximately 150 works on paper and other related objects, Dare to Know explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment era by encouraging individuals to follow their own reason when seeking to know more. An 

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