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Home>National Gallery of Art Communications Office>2015>Summer Lecture Series

Release Date: June 12, 2015

Summer Lecture Series Highlights French Art in Honor of Caillebotte Exhibition

Faya Causey delivers a lecture titled *Cézanne and Antiquity*on July 29 and August 2 at the National Gallery of Art. Image: Paul Cézanne, *The Bend in the Road*, 1900/1906, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Washington, DC—In July and August, the department of adult programs at the National Gallery of Art presents the lecture series *All Things French* in honor of ***Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye*, the first major U.S. exhibition of the artist's work in 20 years.

All lecture programs are presented free of charge and take place in the West Building Lecture Hall. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.

**Summer Lecture Series:*All Things French***

*"Selfies" and Portraits in 19th-Century France*July 8, 1:00 p.m.July 12, 2:00 p.m.Diane Arkin

*A Painter's Eye: The Cinematic Language of Robert**Bresson*July 15, 1:00 p.m.July 19, 2:00 p.m.David Gariff

*Faces of France: Nadar, Daumier, Duchenne*July 22, 1:00 p.m.July 26, 2:00 p.m.Sarah Gordon

*Cézanne and Antiquity*July 29, 1:00 p.m.August 2, 2:00 p.m.Faya Causey

*Fragonard and the Question of Portraiture in 18th-Century French Painting*August 4, 1:00 p.m.August 9, 2:00 p.m.Yuriko Jackall

*When in Rome, Do as the French Do? The Lure of Italy in Baroque France*August 11, 1:00 p.m.August 16, 2:00 p.m.Lorena Baines

*Impressionists and the Paris Commune: Lions or Chickens?*August 19, 1:00 p.m.August 23, 2:00 p.m.Justina Yee

*Drawing in Normandy and Picardy: Ernest Roth and Andre Smith in 1914*August 26, 1:00 p.m.August 30, 2:00 p.m.Eric Denker

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