Enfilade

At the Dallas Museum of Art:

The Eighth Annual Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture
Louis Léopold Boilly: Between Genre and Portraiture
Dallas Museum of Art, 3 November  2011

Louis-Léopold Boilly, "A Family Admiring a Portrait of a Lady in an Interior," ca. 1790, oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 21 in. (44.45 x 53.34 cm), The Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation

Focusing on Louis-Léopold Boilly’s Woman Showing her Portrait, this lecture explores the richly imaginative interchange between genre painting and portraiture in the eighteenth century. Join distinguished scholar Dr. Susan L. Siegfried, Denise Riley Professor of the History of Art and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, as she describes how the easy exchanges between the real and the fantasy elements of these two categories of subject matter evidently facilitated the imaginative participation of patrons and viewers in ascribing meanings to them.

Thursday, November 3
7:30 p.m., C3 Theater
Included in general admission to the Museum