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EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

1973-1983
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78 Street
New York, New York 10021
Ph.D. Degree : conferred February 1983
M.A. Degree : conferred February 1976
Ph.D. Dissertation :
Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe : Issues and
Instruments of Propaganda in French Official Art,
1830-1848
Ph.D. Advisor : Robert Rosenblum
1967-1973
University of Minnesota
College of Liberal Arts
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Double Major : Philosophy and General Humanities
B.A. Degree : conferred August 1973

LANGUAGES

Fluent in French; Good reading knowledge of German and Italian

PRINCIPAL INTERESTS

History, Theory, and Criticism of European and American painting and sculpture of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth centuries

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015-present
Professor Emeritus of Art History, Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University, Stanford, California
2004-2015
Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University, Stanford, California
2005-2006
Interim Chair of the Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University, Stanford, California
1991-2004
Associate Professor of Art History (Tenured), Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University, Stanford, California
1989-1991
Associate Professor of Art History (Untenured), Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University, Stanford, California
1988-1989
Associate Professor (Untenured), Department of Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University, New York, New York
1983-1988
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University, New York, New York
1980-1983
Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University, New York, New York
1979-1980
Instructor, "Parsons in Paris," program sponsored by Parsons School of Design
A course on French architecture from the Renaissance to the present day
(taught each year during the month of July)
1976-1977
Special Coordinator for Cézanne : The Late Work,
exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
a combination of curatorial and educational duties that included :
  • - designing the program and texts of an "orientation gallery"
  • - writing a brochure distributed free to museum visitors
  • - organizing a program of lectures and symposia
  • GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND ACADEMIC AWARDS

    2011
    Senior Fellow : Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles : 1 January — 17 June 2011
    2005-2007
    Mellon Foundation / Sawyer Seminars (in collaboration with John Bender) : Funding for a research seminar, including post-doctoral fellow and graduate fellowships, on the topic Visualizing Knowledge : From Alberti's Window to Digital Arrays
    1989-1990
    The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation : Research Fellowship and Grant
    1989
    Honorable Mention for the David Pinkney Prize, a competition sponsored by the Society for French Historical Studies, for Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe
    1987
    Columbia University Council for Research and Faculty Development in the Humanities : Summer Research Grant
    1987
    Columbia University Semester Sabbatical for Untenured Faculty : Spring 1987
    1986
    Millard Meiss Foundation : Publication Subsidy for the book Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe (Yale University Press)
    1986
    Columbia University Council for Research and Faculty Development in the Humanities : Summer Research Grant
    1984-1985
    American Council of Learned Societies : Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. Degree
    1979-1980
    Institute of Fine Arts : Dissertation Research Fellowship
    1978-1979
    Institute of Fine Arts : Robert Goldwater Memorial Fellowship
    1975-1978
    Institute of Fine Arts : Robert Lehman Fellowship (three year award)
    1973-1975
    Institute of Fine Arts : Graduate Study Fellowships
    1973
    Summa cum Laude in Humanities; Cum laude in Philosophy
    1972
    Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Minnesota

    BOOKS AND ARTICLES

    "Gustave Caillebotte e Giuseppe De Nittis : una amicizia a tutto campo," in Giuseppe De Nittis : La donazione di Léontine Gruvelle De Nittis, catalogo generale, edited by Renato Miracco. Roma : Gangemi Editore, 2022, pp. 105-226
     
    "Figuring Perception : Monet's Leap into Plein-Air, 1866-67," in A Companion to Impressionism, edited by André Dombrowski. Hoboken and Oxford : John Wiley and Sons, 2021, pp. 75-92
     
    Review of Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, edited by Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein, H-France Review, 19, no. 79 (May 2019),
    www.h-france.net/vol19reviews/vol19no79marrinan.pdf
     
    Gustave Caillebotte : Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872 1887. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute / J. Paul Getty Trust, 2016
     
    Reviews Include :
    Marnin Young, H-France Review, 17, no. 148 (August 2017),
    www.h-france.net/vol17reviews/vol17no148young.pdf
    Samuel Raybone, "Book Reviews," The Burlington Magazine, CLIX, no. 1374 (September 2017), pp. 732-733
    Allison Deutsch, "Parisian Masculinities Revisited," Oxford Art Journal, 41, no. 1 (2018), pp. 122-124
    Anne Leonard, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 46, nos. 3-4 (2018),
    www.ncfs-journal.org/?q=printpdf/1524
    Elizabeth Benjamin, caa.reviews, (29 May 2019),
    http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3569
     
    "On the 'thing-ness' of diagrams," in Thinking with Diagrams : The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition, edited by Sybille Krämer and Christina Ljungberg. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 23-56
     
    "Caillebotte's Deep Focus," in Gustave Caillebotte : The Painter's Eye, exhibition catalogue. Washington DC : National Gallery of Art, 2015, pp. 23-37
     
    Kultur des Diagramms, co-authored with John Bender. German edition of The Culture of Diagram, translated by Veit Friemert. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014
     
    Reviews Include :
    Amrei Buchholz, Kunstchronik, 69, no. 1 (2016), pp. 7-12
    Gerd Irrlitz, Weimarer Beiträge, 62, no. 4 (2016), pp. 617-625
     
    Review of The Saint-Aubin Livre de caricatures : Drawing Satire in Eighteenth-Century Paris, edited by Colin Jones, Juliet Carey and Emily Richardson, H-France Review, 13, no. 118 (July 2013),
    www.h-france.net/vol13reviews/vol13no118marrinan.pdf
     
    Review of La Modernité et le métropole : Pour une lecture de l'espace urbain au XIXe siècle, edited by Jelena Jovicic, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 39, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2010), pp. 167-171
     
    The Culture of Diagram, co-authored with John Bender. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2010
     
    Reviews Include :
    David R. Conn, Library Journal, 135, no. 9 (15 May 2010), p. 72
    Jonathan Kramnick, SEL : Studies in English Literature, 50, no. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 700-703
    Martin Jay, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 39, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2010), pp. 157-159
    David Topper, Choice, 48, no. 2 (October 2010)
    Madeleine Pinault-Sørensen, Recherches sur Diderot et l'Encyclopédie, no. 45 (2010), pp. 186-187
    Christopher Armstrong, H-France Review, 11, no. 32 (January 2011),
    www.h-france.net/vol11reviews/vol11no32Armstrong.pdf
    Robert M. Brain, Isis, 102, no. 2 (June 2011), pp. 347-348
    David Ehrenpreis, caa.reviews (25 August 2011),
    www.caareviews.org/reviews/1694
    Norberto Serpente, British Journal for the History of Science, 45, no. 1 (March 2012), pp. 133-135
    Laurence M. Porter, French Review, 85, no. 5 (April 2012), pp. 962-963
    Martin Dodge, Cartographica, 47, no. 4 (2012), pp. 266-267
     
    Romantic Paris : Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800-1850. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2009
     
    Reviews Include :
    Reference and Research Book News, 24, no. 3 (August 2009), p. 250
    Maria M. Mullaney, Library Journal, 134, no. 14 (1 September 2009), p. 125
    Elizabeth Mix, Choice, 47, no. 2 (October 2009)
    Giulia Savio, Canadian Journal of History, 44, no. 3 (Winter 2009), pp. 531-533
    Judith Wechsler, Sehepunkte, 10, no. 9 (15 September 2010), www.sehepunkte.de/2010/09/17509.html
    Jean-Didier Wagneur, Romantisme, no. 148 (2010/2), pp. 185-186
    Jelena Jovicic, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 39, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2010), pp. 171-172
    Richard Wrigley, "Book Reviews," The Burlington Magazine, CLII, no. 1293 (December 2010), pp. 812-813
    Andrew Shelton, H-France Review, 11, no. 15 (January 2011),
    www.h-france.net/vol11reviews/vol11no15Shelton.pdf
    Ronald C. Rosbottom, The French Review, 84, no. 5 (April 2011), pp. 1052-1053
    David J. O'Brien, caa.reviews (3 August 2011),
    www.caareviews.org/reviews/1682
    Pamela Pilbeam, Modern & Contemporary France, 19, no. 3 (Fall 2011), pp. 374-375
    Patrick Luiz De Oliveira, "Parisian Palimpsest : Monuments, Ruins, and Preservation in the Long Nineteenth Century," Journal of Urban History, 41, no. 4 (2015), pp. 739-745
     
    Regimes of Description : In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century, co-edited with John Bender. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2005
     
    Mapping Benjamin : The Work of Art in the Digital Age, co-edited with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2003
     
    "Caillebotte as Professional Painter: From Studio to the Public Eye," in Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris, edited by Norma Broude. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2002, pp. 21-65
     
    "Vivre en marge : Géricault et la vie militaire," in Géricault : Dessins et estampes des collections de l’École des Beaux-Arts, exhibition catalogue. Paris: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1997, pp. 89-106
     
    "Schauer der Eroberung : Strukturen des Zuschauens und der Simulation in den Nordafrika-Galerien von Versailles," in Bilder der Macht-Macht der Bilder, eds. Stefan Germer and Michael Zimmermann. München : Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1997, pp. 267-296
     
    "Dreams of History," review article of Dreams of Happiness by Neil McWilliam, The Oxford Art Journal, 20, no. 2 (September 1997), pp. 76-80
     
    "Narrative Space and Heroic Form : Géricault and the Painting of History," in Géricault : Ouvrage collectif dirigé par Régis Michel. Paris : La documentation Française, 1996, pp. 59-87
     
    Review of The Practice of Theory by Keith Moxey, The American Historical Review, 101, no. 4 (October 1996), pp. 1175-1176
     
    "Historical Vision and the Writing of History at Louis-Philippe’s Versailles," in The Popularization of Images : Visual Culture under the July Monarchy, edited by Petra Chu and Gabriel Weisberg. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 113-143
     
    "Cultural Institutions and the Topography of Art History," in The Philosophy of the Visual Arts, edited by Philip Alperson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 521-529
     
    "Literal/ Literary/ ‘Lexie’ : history, text, and authority in Napoleonic painting," Word & Image, 7, no. 3 (July-September 1991), pp. 177-200
     
    "The Modernity of Middleness : Rethinking the Juste-Milieu," Porticus : Journal of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, XII/XIII (1989/90), pp. 42-63
     
    "The July Monarchy," exhibition review, CAA Art Journal, XLIX, no. 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 301-305
     
    Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe : Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830-1848. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1988
     
    Reviews Include :
    Francis Haskell, "Thanks for the Memory," The New York Review of Books, XXXV, no. 19 (8 December 1988), pp. 48-51
    Claire Brunet, "Notes de Lecture," Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, no. 26 (Winter 1988), pp. 111-112
    Julie F. Codell, "Book Reviews," French Review (Spring 1989), pp. 927-928
    Neil McWilliam, "Book Reviews," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, no. 1033 (April 1989), pp. 302-304
    Daniel J. Sherman, "Reviews," French Politics and Society, VII, no. 2 (Spring 1989), pp. 81-87
    Jon Whiteley, "The King’s Pictures," The Oxford Art Journal, XII, no. 1 (Spring 1989), pp. 57-59
    Anne M. Wagner, "Book Reviews," The American Historical Review, XCV, no. 4 (October 1990), pp. 1214-1215
    Donald M. Rosenthal, "Style Louis-Philippe," CAA Art Journal, XLIX, no. 4 (Winter 1990), pp. 423-426
    Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, "La peinture en France de 1830 à 1848 : Chronique bibliographique et critique," Revue de l’Art, no. 91 (1er trimestre 1991), pp. 71-80
     
    Critical Introduction and Bibliography to reprint edition of Léon Rosenthal’s Du Romantisme au Réalisme. Paris : Macula, 1987
     
    Review of Romanticism and Realism by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, Art in America, LXXII, no. 6 (1984), pp. 29-31
     
    "Neo-Classical Art and Architecture"; text prepared for the new edition of the Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, June 1982
     
    "Resistance, Revolution, and the July Monarchy : Images to Inspire the Chamber of Deputies," The Oxford Art Journal, III, no. 2 (October 1980), pp. 26-37
     
    "Images and Ideas of Charlotte Corday : Texts and Contexts of an Assassination," Arts Magazine, LIV, no. 8 (April 1980), pp. 158-176
     
    "Picasso as an ‘Ingres’ Young Cubist," The Burlington Magazine, CXIX, no. 896 (November 1977), pp. 756-763
     
    "Cézanne : The Late Work"; brochure prepared to accompany the exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, cited above

    LECTURES AND PAPERS

    "You think you know what Impressionism is ?"; Panel discussion organized around the exhibition An Italian Impressionist in Paris : Giuseppe De Nittis, at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, 5 February 2023
     
    "Enchanted Objects : Why Still-Life Painting is Modern (according to Duncan Phillips)"; at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 16 May 2019
     
    "Figuring Perception : Monet at Sainte-Adresse in 1867"; Colloquium Impressionisme noir organized by the Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris, 15-16 November 2018
     
    "Cailebotte's Paris"; Inaugural Symposium for Gustave Caillebotte : The Painter's Eye at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, 7 November 2015
     
    "Writing Letters / Marking Paint : van Gogh's Doubt"; Department of Art and Art History at San José State University in San José, 19 November 2013
     
    "Gustave Cailebotte's Paris : Fantasizing the Urban Garden"; Symposium Space & Identity organized by the Art History Association at San José State University in San José, 14 April 2012
     
    "The Thing-ness of Diagrams"; Colloquium Thinking with Diagrams : Space-Knowledge-Inscription organized by TOPOI Research Group at Freie Universität in Berlin, 7 July 2011
     
    "GC's Point & Shoot : Figuring the Subjectivity of Naturalism"; Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, 18 April 2011
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Symposium Translating the Encyclopedia in the Global Eighteenth Century in New York, 5 March 2011
     
    "The Thing-ness of Diagrams"; Workshop on Diagrammatic Reasoning organized by CSLI at Stanford University, 13 March 2010
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Symposium Thinking through Diagrams in Madison, 26 February 2010
     
    "Le Tricolore : Triumph and Conflict"; Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco, 14 July 2009
     
    "Napoléon and the Visual Arts"; Symposium Confronting Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads organized by Humanities West in San Francisco, 17 April 2009
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; CRASSH at Cambridge University, 28 October 2008
     
    "The Efficacy of Diagram: The Domain of Whiteness" in collaboration with John Bender; The International Word+Image Colloquium in Paris, 7 July 2008
     
    "The Culture of Diagram: Visualizations" in collaboration with John Bender; Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution at Stanford University, 2 June 2008
     
    "The Secret Life of René Cailebotte: Gustave's Pictures of his Brother"; Symposium Open Eyes and Open Mind: The Art History of Robert Rosenblum organized by New York University in New York City, 14 October 2006
     
    "Reflections on Ingres and the Reality of Art"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 13 March 2006
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Annual Lecture sponsored by The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University, 23 February 2006
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor, 22 February 2006
     
    "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor, 22 February 2006
     
    "Thinking with Diagrams in Marmontel and David" in collaboration with John Bender; Stanford Humanities Center, 24 January 2006
     
    "Delacroix's Liberty leading the People" interview and commentary on the televison program produced by Nick Gold for The Secret Life of a Masterpiece series, BBC Channel 2 in London, 2 April 2005
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; The Nineteeth Annual DeBartolo Conference organized by the University of South Florida in Tampa, 18 February 2005
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Department of Rhetoric, University of California—Berkeley, 26 April 2004
     
    "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting in Boston, 26 March 2004
     
    "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; Seminar on the Enlightenment and Revolution at Stanford, 23 February 2004
     
    "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Visual Knowledges Conference organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanties at the University of Edinburgh, 17 September 2003
     
    "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; The International Word+Image Colloquium in Paris, 26 June 2003
     
    "Forestalling Fantasy: Circuits of Desire in Delacroix's Women of Algiers"; Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Annual Meeting in Columbus Ohio, 25 October 2002
     
    "Gustave Caillebotte's Paris: The Uncanny of Everyday Life"; Symposium The Everyday: The Ordinary and the Extraordinary organized by the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, 5 May 2001
     
    "A Site for Sight: Monet in his Gardens at Giverny"; The Faculty Talks at Stanford University, 8 March 2001
     
    "A Site for Sight: Monet in his Gardens at Giverny"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 8 February 1999
     
    "Figurer l’histoire"; Lecture and debate at Centre Louis et Charles Blanc, Université Paris X at Nanterre, 20 March 1998
     
    "Langues visibles au XIXe siècle: Notes for an Archaeology"; Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 25 April 1997
     
    "What is a Portrait? Thoughts on seeing "the other" in Pictures"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 9 December 1996
     
    "Langues visibles du XIXe siècle: Preliminary Notes for an archaeology"; Symposium to Honor the Memory of George H. Bauer organized by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 6 December 1966
     
    "To See and Not Say: Articulations of Langue and Parole in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture"; Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Annual Meeting in Toronto, 26 October 1996
     
    "The Thrill of Conquest: Structures of Spectating and Simulation in the Galleries of the North African Wars at Versailles"; Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas in Austin, 10 April 1995
     
    "The New Paris: Site and Schema of Caillebotte’s Urban Vision"; The Art Institute of Chicago, 14 March 1995
     
    "The New Paris: Site and Schema of Caillebotte’s Urban Vision"; Duke University Museum of Art, 9 March 1995
     
    "Van Gogh’s ‘Madness’: Reading the Symptoms of a Crisis in Painting"; University of Missouri—Columbia, 6 February 1994
     
    "Van Gogh’s ‘Madness’: Reading the Symptoms of a Crisis in Painting"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 10 October 1994
     
    "Narrative Space and Heroic Form: Géricault and the Painting of History"; Lehman Foundation Lecture sponsored by Emory University in Atlanta, 18 March 1993
     
    "The Thrill of Conquest: Structures of Spectating and Simulation in the Galleries of the North African Wars at Versailles"; Colloquium Visionen Zeitgenössischer Geschichte organized by the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, 14 January 1993
     
    "Espace narratif et forme héroïque : Géricault et la peinture d’histoire"; Colloque Géricault organized by the Musée du Louvre in Paris, 14 November 1991
     
    "Caillebotte’s Pont de l’Europe: Site, Sight-Lines, Situations"; CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, 27 September 1991
     
    "Edgar Degas: The Art of Seeing"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 11 March 1991
     
    "Historical Vision and the Writing of History at Louis-Philippe’s Versailles"; American Historical Association Annual Meeting in New York, 28 December 1990
     
    "The Modernity of Middleness: Re-thinking the Juste Milieu"; Charlotte Whitney Allen Lecture sponsored by the Memorial Art Gallery, the University of Rochester, 27 January 1990
     
    "Louis-Philippe’s Versailles: A History Machine for le Grand Public"; Blake-More Godwin Lecture sponsored by the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 3 November 1989
     
    Panel Respondent for "Visual Representations of the French Revolution"; The International Congress on the History of the French Revolution at Georgetown University, 6 May 1989
     
    "Louis-Philippe’s Versailles: A History Machine for the Grand Public"; Symposium Art and the French State organized by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, 7 April 1989
     
    "Diagrams of Class and Power: Haussmann’s Paris and the Complicity of Gustave Caillebotte"; Yale University Department of the History of Art, 7 March 1989
     
    "The Rights of Man, Patriarchal Power, and Images of Political Virtue in Revolutionary France"; SUNY Purchase (New York), 7 February 1989
     
    "The Rights of Man, Patriarchal Power, and Images of Political Virtue in Revolutionary France"; Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 3 February 1989
     
    "Edgar Degas: The Art of Seeing"; La Maison Française at Columbia University, 7 December 1988
     
    "Gustave Caillebotte and the Image of Modern Paris"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 15 November 1988
     
    "Cultural Institutions and the Topography of Art History"; The American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting in Vancouver, 29 October 1988
     
    "The Sexual Politics of Public Virtue in Late Eighteenth-Century Painting"; Dartmouth College Department of Art History, 13 May 1988
     
    "The Politics of an Anti-Style: Making Art for the Citizen-King"; The Jewish Museum of New York, 27 October 1987
     
    "No Women Allowed: Gender and Patriotism in Late Eighteenth-Century Painting"; Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, 4 March 1987
     
    "When Johnny Goes Marching Off To War: Widows, Weepers, and other Women in Neo-Classical Images of Militarism"; Workshop Women and Violence organized by Columbia University in New York City, 1 April 1986
     
    "The Garden Paradigm: Gustave Caillebotte and the Limits of Bourgeois Naturalism"; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 7 March 1986
     
    "Eugène Delacroix as Painter of Modern Life: Facts and Fantasies of a Romantic Reporter"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 25 November 1985
     
    "On ‘Being French’ in a World of Change: The Prix de Rome, 1797-1863"; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 15 April 1984
     
    "The Impression of Napoléon: From Current Events to Imperial Emblems"; The Fashion Institute of Technology, 21 November 1983
     
    "Plein-Airism Before Impressionism"; The Oklahoma Museum of Art, 6 May 1983
     
    "Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People: Revolutionary Romance or Political Parti Pris?"; Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, 14 February 1983
     
    "The ‘Fresh Start’ of 1830 and the Memory of 1789: Images to Inspire the Chambre des Députés"; College Art Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, 5 January 1980
     
    "Cézanne and the Old Masters"; The Museum of Modern Art, 25 October 1977
     
    "Cézanne’s Portraits, Figures, and Bathers"; Smithsonian Institution Resident Associate Program, 22 October 1977

    OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

    1994 - 1997
    Member of Steering Committee, Stanford Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution
    1991 - present
    Occasional Peer Review Reader for The Art Bulletin (publication of the College Art Association)
    1990 - present
    Occasional Peer Review Reader for Yale University Press

    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

    American Historical Association
    American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
    College Art Association