Video: Curator Richard Rand on key works from the Clark

Posted: 09 July 2012 by Amy Macpherson RA Website Editor

The Royal Academy's new exhibition of 19th-century French masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has just opened. In the videos below, Clark Institute curator Richard Rand introduces three of the works in the show, including the exhibition's poster girl - Renoir's Girl with a Fan.

You can read more about the exhibition in the Summer 2012 issue of RA Magazine.

_{Claude Monet, The Cliffs at Étretat, 1885. Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachussetts, USA, 1955.528.}

_{Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Girl with a Fan, c.1879. Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54cm. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachussetts, USA, 1955.595.}

_{Jean-Léon Gerôme, The Snake Charmer, c.1879. Oil on canvas, 82.2x121cm. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachussetts, USA, 1955.612.}