We hope that you and your colleagues can join us for this event for three new shows at the Cantor.
 
Celebrate New Exhibitions
and a Season of French Art at the Cantor
Wednesday, July 10, 10 am to noon
Comments at 10:20, Continental Breakfast until noon
RSVP acceptances only to mmwhite@stanford.edu or 650-724-3600
 


Storied Past:
Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art
July 3–September 22, 2013
Fifty-five enchanting drawings chronicle the development of the medium in France from the Renaissance to 1900. See 17th- and 18th-century drawings created by artists at the prestigious Royal Academy in Paris, 19th- and 20th-century works that illuminate the social, economic, and political changes transforming France, and more. Related lecture by Cantor curator Elizabeth Mitchell, July 18. Docent tours Thursday, 12:15 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 2 pm. Learn more at http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/storied-past.html
 
Inspired by Temptation:
Odilon Redon and Saint Anthony
July 3–October 20, 2013
French symbolist Odilon Redon often paired his art with literature. The resulting images—fantastical and dreamlike—stand alone as avant-garde works of art. This exhibition presents three lithographic albums (42 works) inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s book The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874). In that story a third-century monk retreated to the desert to contemplate God and is assaulted by erotic visions and demonic apparitions. Learn more at http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/redon.html

Drawn to the Body:
French Figure Drawings from the Cantor Arts Center Collection
July 3–September 22, 2013
Since the Renaissance, the most important skill for a draftsman to master was the ability to draw the human body, a basic element for images from complex narrative compositions to refined portraits. This exhibition showcases 17th- to 19th-century French drawings and explores approaches to depicting the human form. Learn more at http://museum.stanford.edu/view/exhibition_sched_new.html#future_exhibitions#drawn

VISITOR INFORMATION
- FREE Admission
- OPEN: Wednesday–Sunday 11 am–5 pm and Thursday evenings until 8 pm
- OPEN JULY 4th, 11 am to 8 pm
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IMAGES ABOVE:
• François-André Vincent, Portrait of Marie-Gabrielle Capet, c. 1782. Black and white chalk on paper. Purchased with funds given by Ann Bancroft Dickinson, 1982.137.
• Alexandre-Louis Leloir, Harem Girl Playing a Stringed Instrument, 1875, watercolor, gouache and graphite on ivory wove paper
Gift of the Wunsch Foundation, Inc., 1983.133.
• Odilon Redon, Here is the Good Goddess, the Idaean mother of the mountains, (detail). Plate 15 of The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1896. Lithograph. The Kirk Edward Long Collection, 2010.60.15.