Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, offers a guided tour of Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70, allowing members to engage closely with the exhibition and the ideas behind it. While Realism dominated mid-nineteenth-century France, a significant group of printmakers and photographers explored imagination, dream, and allegory in their work.

Image: Charles Meryon, The Vampire (detail), 1853, etching on paper. The Clark, 1968.4