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Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2021
Reflections on the Collection
The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art
Explore iconic works in the National Gallery collection with renowned scholars from around the world. These short talks bring you up close to works in our galleries, as researchers share in-depth background and personal insights about some of their favorite works of art.
The speakers featured here came to the National Gallery as part of the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor program, which forges connections between the museum, the Center, and emerging and established scholars.
Marc Fumaroli on Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Landscape Paintings (c. 1775/1780)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2011
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain on Auguste Rodin’s The Walking Man (L’Homme qui marche) (model 1878–1900, cast probably 1903)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2016–2017
Richard J. Powell on Archibald J. Motley Jr.’s Portrait of My Grandmother (1922)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2019
Kathleen A. Foster on Winslow Homer’s Boys Wading (1873)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2015
Carl Brandon Strehlke on Domenico Veneziano’s Saint John in the Desert (c. 1445/1450)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2005
Stephen Bann on Léopold Flameng’s Portrait of a Man (Le Doreur), after Rembrandt van Rijn (1885)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2005
Nancy J. Troy on Piet Mondrian’s Tableau No. IV: Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black (c. 1924/1925)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2008
Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken on Annibale and Agostino Carracci’s River Landscapes (c. 1590/1595)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2004
Anna Ottani Cavina on John Robert Cozens’s Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno (1790)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2014
Jacqueline Lichtenstein on Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1878–1881)
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, 2011–2012