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Nicolas Maréchal, French, Ursus maritimus (Polar bear), Drawing for an illustration to Ménagerie du Muséum d’histoire naturelle, ou Description et histoire des animaux (Menagerie of the Museum of Natural History, or Description and History of Animals), by Etienne de Lacépède (Paris: 1801).  Black chalk, extensively stumped.  The Horvitz Collection, Wilmington, Del., D-F-1456, TL42410.6.

Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment

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Join graduate student Hana Nikčević from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for an in-depth discussion around Nicolas Maréchal’s drawing of a polar bear, on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.

Featuring approximately 150 works on paper and other related objects, Dare to Know explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment era by encouraging individuals to follow their own reason when seeking to know more. An illustrated catalogue with 26 thematic essays—an A to Z exploration of the Enlightenment quest for understanding and change—accompanies the exhibition.

Led by:
Hana Nikčević, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Gallery talks are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The gallery talk reservation will also serve as your general museum reservation. If required, visitors will pay the museum admission fee upon arrival.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.

Please see the museum visit page to learn about our general policies for visiting the museum.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts