December 16, 2005 through March 12, 2006
At The Fogg Art Museum (more about the Fogg)

Marguerite Gérard and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The First Steps, c. 1780-85. Oil on canvas, 44.45 x 55.25 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, 1961.166. Photo: Photographic Services, HUAM. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

This exhibition 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 Art Museums with some of its most celebrated works by Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, Ingres, Le Moyne, Natoire, and Robert. The related publication investigates aspects of Dunlap's biography, his taste, his sources, his journey as a collector, and his long association with the museums.

Organized by Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Jeffrey E. Horvitz Research Curator in the Department of Drawings. Funding has been provided by the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Foundation, David Leventhal, and Howard Lepow.

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