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# Reflections on the Collection

**The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art**

Explore iconic works in the National Gallery collection with renowned scholars from around the world. These short talks bring you up close to works in our galleries, as researchers share in-depth background and personal insights about some of their favorite works of art.

The speakers featured here came to the National Gallery as part of the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor program, which forges connections between the museum, the Center, and emerging and established scholars.   

Does Sculpture Need a Building? Penelope Curtis on Henry Moore**Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2021Watch

David Bomford on Édouard Manet’s *The Railway* (1873)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2018**Watch** Listen

Thomas Kren on Giovanni d’Alemagna’s *Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol* (c. 1442/1445)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2016Watch Listen

Cecilia Frosinini on Giotto’s *Madonna and Child* (c. 1310/1315)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2013Watch Listen

Marc Fumaroli on Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Landscape Paintings (c. 1775/1780)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2011Watch Listen

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain on Auguste Rodin’s *The Walking Man (L’Homme qui marche)* (model 1878–1900, cast probably 1903)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2016*–*2017Watch Listen

Richard J. Powell on Archibald J. Motley Jr.’s *Portrait of My Grandmother*(1922)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2019Watch Listen

Kathleen A. Foster on Winslow Homer’s *Boys Wading* (1873)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2015Watch Listen 

Carl Brandon Strehlke on Domenico Veneziano’s *Saint John in the Desert* (c. 1445/1450)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2005Watch Listen

Stephen Bann on Léopold Flameng’s *Portrait of a Man (Le Doreur)*, after Rembrandt van Rijn (1885)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2005Watch Listen

Nancy J. Troy on Piet Mondrian’s *Tableau No. IV: Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black*(c. 1924/1925)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2008Watch Listen

Victor Stoichita on Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s *Two Women at a Window* (c. 1655/1660)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2011Watch Listen

Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken on Annibale and Agostino Carracci’s *River Landscapes* (c. 1590/1595)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2004Watch Listen

Anna Ottani Cavina on John Robert Cozens’s *Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno* (1790)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2014Watch Listen

Jacqueline Lichtenstein on Edgar Degas’s *Little Dancer Aged Fourteen *(1878–1881)Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2011–2012Watch Listen 

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