Gallery Talk / Monet’s Paris, 1867

Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

In 1867, during the waning years of Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s radical transformation of Paris, Claude Monet requested special authorization to paint at the Louvre. Rather than copy the masterpieces inside the museum, as had generations of artists before him, Monet turned his view in the opposite direction—toward the city itself. Join Marlise Brown, Associate Curator of European and American Art, for a gallery talk on the Allen’s current exhibition, Picturing Paris: Monet and the Modern City. This exhibition reunites three of Monet’s important cityscapes of Paris painted from an elevated viewpoint inside the Louvre: Oberlin’s Garden of the Princess, plus Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois (on loan from the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin) and Quai du Louvre (on loan from the Kunstmuseum in the Hague).

Registration Required

Access Statement:
This talk will be held in a wheelchair- and rolling walker-accessible building. Restrooms are gender-specific and wheelchair-accessible. The gallery is located on the main floor. Gallery seating is limited and stools are available by the back entrance. Listening devices and ASL are currently not scheduled for this event, nor will it be recorded. Please email access questions to Jill Greenwood, jgreenwo@oberlin.edu.