Museum Talks | Washington, DC #20 The National Gallery of Art – Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

Villa Albertine DC is honored to host Dr. Kimberly Jones for a virtual talk on Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. This event will take place online on Thursday, October 10 from 6pm to 7pm ET.

The conversation will be moderated by Faya Causey, former Head of Academic Programs at the National Gallery of Art, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

This virtual talk was recorded and published on the Embassy of France’s YouTube channel here.

You can watch the recording below:

Exhibition

How did Impressionism begin? Discover the origins of the French art movement in a new look at the radical 1874 exhibition considered the birth of modern painting.

A remarkable presentation of 130 works, includes a rare reunion of many of the paintings first featured in that now-legendary exhibition. Revisit beloved paintings by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and meet their lesser-known contemporaries. Learn about the art norms they were rebelling against and what political and social shifts sparked their new approach to art.

The Speaker

Kimberly A. Jones received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1996. A former museum fellow at the Musée national du château de Pau and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, she joined the curatorial staff of the National Gallery of Art in 1995.

Jones was a collaborator and catalogue co-author for the exhibition Jean-Paul Laurens 1838–1921 peintre d’histoire on view at the Musée d’Orsay, and the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (1997–1998). She has served as curator and catalogue author for a number of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, including Degas at the Races (1998); Edouard Vuillard, which was organized by the National Gallery of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’Orsay/Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2003–2004); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, which was organized in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2008); From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection (2010–2011); Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, an exhibition that traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Arts Center, Tokyo, and the Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto (2011); and Degas/Cassatt (2014). Most recently, she was curator and co-author for Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism, which was organized by the Musée Fabre, Montpellier and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris and the National Gallery of Art (2016–2017).

Jones has lectured and published articles on a number of topics related to French art of the 19th century and is currently overseeing the publication of the systematic catalogue of the Gallery’s collection of later 19th-century French paintings.

This virtual talk will be recorded and published on the Embassy of France’s YouTube channel here.