Individuality and Identity: Naming Sitters in French Portrait Drawings

225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016

This exhibition explores stories of (mis)identification in drawings by some of nineteenth-century France’s most renowned artists and their followers, including Théodore Chassériau, Charles Damour, Eugène Delacroix, Joseph Ducreux, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Léon Louis Antoine Riesener, examining portraiture’s powers and limitations in capturing histories, personalities, and identities.