Proof of registration, via a QR code on your phone or on paper, will be required to enter Reid Hall. Entry will be refused to those who are not registered.
Please note that access will not be permitted 15 minutes after the start of the event.
Event attendees are welcome to join us for a cocktail at 7:30 p.m. following the presentation.
A discussion on the occasion of the Musée d’Orsay’s landmark retrospective of the American painter John Singer Sargent and his pivotal decade in Paris. Curators Paul Perrin and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons will present the exhibition, followed by a conversation with distinguished art historian Richard Ormond, Sargent’s grandnephew and leading authority on his work, and American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic Jean Strouse.
Following its acclaimed debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, John Singer Sargent : Éblouir Paris highlights Sargent’s pivotal decade in Paris, culminating in his controversial and career-defining Portrait of Madame X at the 1884 Salon de Paris. The exhibition is open from September 23, 2025 to January 11, 2026.
This public event follows a journée d’études at the museum from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event will be held in French, with live translations in English.
More details to come.
Organized by the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the Musée d’Orsay.
This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.
