Naked vs. Nude: Bodies and Bathers in Nineteenth-Century France

Nicole R. Myers, Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art With the advent of Realism in the 1850s, a challenge arose in the depiction of the female nude, once exclusively the domain of mythological goddesses and Biblical heroines. This lecture will explore the fraught, contradictory, and shifting rules governing the depiction of the female nude in nineteenth-century French painting from Ingres to Renoir.

Free program. Seating is limited. Pavilion Auditorium; simulcast in Kahn Auditorium

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