EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

An official event of the 1989 Bastille Day celebrations commemorating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, the special exhibition, “The French Revolution and Romanticism,” consisted of 170 works loaned by the Carnavalet Museum and other French museums. Among the works displayed were those by Neoclassical painters Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, as well as the Romantic masters Théodore Géricault and Delacroix, created from the second half of the 18th century to the first half of the succeeding century. The exhibition, which also featured historic documents from the French Revolution, was made possible through the generous service of French art critic and TFAM honorary curator René Huyghe and the French government.