ROCOCO AND REVOLUTION: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAWINGS HIGHLIGHTS ERA OF GREAT ARTISTIC CHANGE

Show Includes such Masters as Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and David

**Press Preview: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 10 a.m. until noon** RSVP: (212) 590-0393, E-mail Media

Few eras in French history witnessed the same degree of radical social and political changes as those of the eighteenth century. The efflorescence of the ancien régime and its eventual downfall provide the backdrop to a period of remarkable artistic vitality and variety that subtly chronicled the many changes taking place in France.