Topic: Fragonard's Landscapes: An Enlightenment Journey

Join the European Paintings Council for a public lecture on renowned 18th century French painter, Jean Honoré Fragonard, by Associate Director of Collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Richard Rand.

Richard Rand has worked as a curator and museum administrator for over thirty-five years, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Rand has published and lectured widely on French art from the 17th through the 19th centuries and has organized numerous exhibitions on such artists as Jacques Louis David, Jean Honoré Fragonard, Claude Lorrain, Jean-François Millet, Winslow Homer, Camille Pissarro, and J.M.W. Turner. In recent years, Rand has organized several exhibitions of contemporary artists, including Juan Muñoz, El Anatsui, and Ellsworth Kelly. He was one of the presenting curators of the exhibition Cy Twombly: Making Past Present (Getty and MFA, Boston, 2022-23). Rand received his BA in studio art and art history from Bowdoin College and his PhD in art history from the University of Michigan. In 2011 he was made Chevalier des arts et des lettres by the French government.

Jean Honoré Fragonard, Landscape with Passing Shower, between 1765 and 1775, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 48.215.