Lowell Lecture
Curated Conversations: Boston's French Connection: Yankees in Post-Revolutionary Paris
Date & Time
June 10, 2018 at 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Thomas Michie, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Presenting Organization
Topics
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, Boston merchant James Swan assembled a notable collection of royal furniture and other decorative arts for his house in Dorchester. Fifty years later, following the French Revolution of 1848, another Bostonian, Peter Parker, purchased a group of French furnishings for his mansion in the South End. In this gallery talk, Thomas Michie, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, explores the stories behind these objects, among the finest of their kind in any museum, and the sad endings of their owners’ lives.