File name: salmon.jpg
Signature dish Terrine de saumon fumé, salade verte (smoked salmon terrine with green salad), created by Chef Michel Richard for Garden Café Français at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 26, 2010–February 10, 2011. Photo by Rob Shelley © National Gallery of Art, Washington.

File name: faux_gras.jpg
Signature dish "faux gras" (chicken liver mousse) accompanied by charcuterie, created by Chef Michel Richard for Garden Café Français at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 26, 2010–February 10, 2011. Photo by Rob Shelley © National Gallery of Art, Washington.

File name: ribs.jpg
Signature dish Plat de côtes rôtis 72 heures, sauce bordelaise, purée de pommes de terre (72-hour short ribs and mashed potatoes with bordelaise sauce), created by Chef Michel Richard for Garden Café Français at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 26, 2010–February 10, 2011. Photo by Rob Shelley © National Gallery of Art, Washington.

File name: michel.jpg
Chef Michel Richard. Photo by Stacy Zarin-Goldberg.

File name: michel_renoir.jpg
Chef Michel Richard with Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering Can (1876) from the Chester Dale Collection. Photo by Rob Shelley © National Gallery of Art, Washington.

File name: michel_david.jpg
Chef Michel Richard, Citronelle and Central, and Chef David Rogers, Restaurant Associates at the National Gallery of Art, with Paul Gauguin's Self Portrait (1889) from the Chester Dale Collection. Photo by Rob Shelley © National Gallery of Art, Washington.

File name: michel_kim.jpg
Chef Michel Richard, Citronelle and Central, with Kimberly Jones, associate curator of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, with Auguste Renoir's Odalisque (1870) from the Chester Dale Collection. Photo by Rob Shelley © National Gallery of Art, Washington.