Public Symposium
En Plein Air: Representing Landscape in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain
May 2 and 3, 2008
East Building Auditorium
Held in conjunction with the exhibition
In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet and Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860
May 2
3:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
Towards Impressionism? Barbizon in Context
John House, Walter H. Annenberg Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art
May 3
12:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Fontainebleau—The Shadow of the Past
Michael Clarke, director, National Gallery of Scotland
The Matter of Technique: Plein-Air Painting in Nineteenth-Century France
Anthea Callen, professor, school of humanities and department of art history, Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture, United Kingdom
"I need large canvases to capture it all": Ongoing Technical Examination of Daubigny's Late Landscapes
René Boitelle, paintings conservator, Van Gogh Museum
Break
Nature in Focus: Travel, Forestry and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Christopher Otter, assistant professor of modern European history, Ohio State University
Caledonia stern, but not so wild: Scottish Photography after 1848
Duncan Forbes, senior curator of photography, National Galleries of Scotland
Collecting Photographs of Barbizon: Parallel Lines between France and the United States from 1850 to 1875
Dominique de Font-Réaulx, curator, Musée du Louvre