LECTURES
Friday, November 2, 6:30 pm: Introducing The Orléans Collection with Senior Research Curator for European Art Vanessa Schmid
Thursday, November 29, 6 pm: Champs-Elysées: Building Paris, Building New Orleans with Professor Joan Dejean, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, January 25, 7 pm: Viewing Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris with Professor Andrew McClellan, Tufts University
AN EDIBLE FEAST
Sunday, December 9, 7 pm: Join us for a decadent evening of art and edibles. A private curator-led gallery tour of The Orléans Collection will be followed by a champagne reception, featuring delicacies from New Orleans’s leading pastry chefs. During the reception, Susan Pinkard, culinary scholar and author of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800, will discuss the history of desserts and champagne in early modern France. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
SYMPOSIUM
The Orléans Collection: Tastemaking, Networks and Legacy
Friday–Saturday, January 11–12: Presented by NOMA and The Frick Collection Center for the History of Collecting. Reservations required: $ 75 members | $ 100 nonmembers | $30 Graduate Students with ID | MORE INFORMATION
CURATOR’S PERSPECTIVE
With Curator Vanessa Schmid
Friday, November 2, 7:15 pm | Friday, November 16, 6 pm | Friday, January 25, 6 pm
NOONTIME TALKS
With Curator Vanessa Schmid: Wednesday, October 31, 12 pm | Wednesday, December 5, 12 pm | Friday, December 28, 12 pm | Wednesday, January 23, 12 pm
With Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan: Wednesday, November 14, 12 pm | December 19, 12 pm | January 9, 12 pm
FRENCH CONNECTIONS FILM SERIES
Travel through time to 18th-century France with films exploring life among the aristocracy. The French Connections Film Series, presented in conjunction with the The Orléans Collection, takes place Saturday afternoons in November and December.
Saturday, November 3, 2 pm: A Little Chaos (Rated R | 2014 | 1 hr. 52 min.) Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden for King Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles.
Saturday, November 17, 2 pm: The Death of Louis XIV (La mort de Louis XIV) (Not rated | 2016 | 1 hr. 55 min.) Upon returning from a hunting expedition in August 1715, King Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The film traces the king’s last days. French with English subtitles.
Saturday, November 24, 2 pm: The Royal Exchange (L’Echange des Princesses) (Not rated | 2017 | 1 hr. 40 min.) In 1721, French Regent Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans offers to marry his own daughter to the heir apparent to the Spanish throne. French with English subtitles.
Saturday, December 1, 2 pm: Dangerous Liaisons (Rated R | 1988 | 1 hr. 59 min.) This portrait of the 18th-century French aristocracy focuses on a scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover, who make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.