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Home>Learn>Teachers>School Field Trips>French Art

# French Art

Grades 6 through 12

**We are no longer accepting requests for winter/spring field trips.**

**We will offer a selection of in-person and virtual field trips (using Zoom) for Fall 2024.**

**Request for fall field trips (September 30 – December 6, 2024) will be accepted from August 1 – November 1, 2024.**

Explore how French art evolved over 150 years by looking at artists such as David, Monet, and Degas. This field trip gives students a taste of French art and explores various themes such as artistic styles and techniques, patronage and power, and changing subject matter as artists respond to the world around them.

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Jean Siméon Chardin, *Soap Bubbles*, probably 1733/1734, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson, 1942.5.1

Looking and Learning Skills

During four to five field trip stops, students engage in activities—such as looking exercises and small-group work—that foster conversations about works of art. On this field trip, students will practice the following skills:
                    - Reasoning with evidence from works of art and using them as primary sources from which to gather ideas about French art and culture.
                    - Developing new perspectives about French art, culture, and history.
                    - Making and voicing careful observations.
                    - Formulating questions that demonstrate curiosity and engagement.
                    - Comparing different works of art and articulating connections between them.
                    - Connecting field trip ideas to prior knowledge and experience.

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**In-Person Field Trip Information**

Group Size: Up to 60 studentsLength: 75 minutesMeeting Location: West Building Rotunda

**Virtual Field Trip Information**

Length: 60 minutes

**Important Scheduling Information**

Field trips must be scheduled at least four weeks in advance. Groups must contain at least 15 students.

Once your field trip has been scheduled, you will receive an email confirmation within ten business days.

**Title I Bus Stipends**

Funding for the cost of bus transportation is available for Title I schools that participate in our docent-led school field trips. For more information, please get in touch with Deirdre Palmer at [email protected] or (202) 842-6880, or use the application form.

## Examples of Works Featured on this Field Trip

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Jacques-Louis David, *The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries*, 1812, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.15

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Jean Siméon Chardin, *Soap Bubbles*, probably 1733/1734, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson, 1942.5.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Claude Monet, *The Japanese Footbridge*, 1899, oil on canvas, Gift of Victoria Nebeker Coberly, in memory of her son John W. Mudd, and Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1992.9.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Edouard Manet, *The Old Musician*, 1862, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.162

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Auguste Renoir, *Pont Neuf, Paris*, 1872, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.58

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Vincent van Gogh, *Self-Portrait*, 1889, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1998.74.5

## Additional National Gallery Resources

Lessons for Grades 6 through 8

Lessons for Grades 9 through 12

Classroom Poster
The Railway
Manet’s *The Railway* gives us a glimpse of Parisian life in the 19th century. The poster offers information and activities to encourage looking at, thinking about, and interpreting the work of art. It can be used flexibly and is suitable for small-group or whole-class work.
Download Poster (PDF 522KB)

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