Exhibition curator Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, introduces Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70. Offering a new take on mid-nineteenth-century French art, the exhibition emphasizes the powerful role of fantasy and the imagination during an era when Realism was presumed to be ascendant.

Image: Charles Rambert, Money (L'Argent) (detail), 1851, lithograph. The Clark, 2022.13.2