"To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap

, Fogg Art Museum
Two fair-skinned partially nude women recline in the center, with men and babies around in a landscape setting.

Fogg Art Museum

This exhibition of 30 works highlights the extraordinary generosity of Charles E. Dunlap, a Harvard graduate whose gifts and bequest of 18th- and early 19th-century drawings and paintings provided the Fogg Museum with some of its most celebrated works by François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, François Le Moyne, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Hubert Robert, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The related publication investigates aspects of Dunlap’s biography, his taste, his sources, his journey as a collector, and his long association with the Art Museum.

Organized by Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Jeffrey E. Horvitz Research Curator in the Department of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum.

The exhibition and accompanying brochure were funded by the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Foundation, David Leventhal, and Howard Lepow.

Exhibition Objects