Brettell Lecture: "Edouard Manet and the Art of Parisian Chic"

Name: Brettell Lecture: "Edouard Manet and the Art of Parisian Chic"
Start: 2026-04-11T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-11T15:00:00-05:00
Location: 1717 N Harwood St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75201

Schedule

Sat Apr 11 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1717 N Harwood St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75201 | Dallas, TX

Join Justine De Young, Associate Professor, History of Art, at the Fashion Institute of Technology, for this year’s Richard R. Brettell Lecture, where she’ll explore the perception of women in 19th-century France using the DMA's Portrait of Isabelle Lemonnier with a Muff by Edouard Manet.
🎶 12:45 p.m. | Enjoy live 19th-century French music in the European Galleries before the lecture begins.
🕑 2:00 p.m. | Professor Justine De Young explores how women like Lemonnier were perceived, how they shaped their image, and how they navigated public life in Second Empire and Belle Époque Paris.
📚 Book signing to follow! Copies of “The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris” available in the DMA Store.
Edouard Manet was celebrated for his paintings of chic Parisiennes such as Isabelle Lemonnier, one of his favorite models. The elegant and charming Lemonnier, the sister of famous salon hostess Marguerite Charpentier, fascinated Manet. Both were masters of the art of Parisian chic, aligning dress, appearance, and behavior in line with expectations of the time, as this talk will explore.
Looking at a rich array of visual sources—from portraits to modern-life paintings, and from photographs to fashion plates—Professor Justine De Young will reveal how women like Lemonnier were seen, how they aspired to be seen, and how they navigated public life in Second Empire and Belle Epoque Paris. A book signing for her new publication, The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris, will follow. Dr. De Young's book will be available for purchase in the DMA Store.