Presented by the Association of Print Scholars.

Join us for a discussion of the significant and often surprising links between printmaking and literature during the nineteenth-century French etching revival. This lecture offers a fresh perspective on the revival through the work of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt: novelists, diarists, art historians, collectors, and etchers. Identifying new intersections between print and prose in the Goncourts’ work, this presentation explores pressing questions about the purpose and value of creative labor in nineteenth-century France.

Rachel Skokowski, Director of Galleries and Curator, Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico and author of "The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching" (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Laurel Garber is the Park Family Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a specialist in nineteenth-century French graphic art.