Members of the Museum Council are invited to hear from Denise Murrell, associate curator for 19th- and 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as she surveys the evolving portrayal of the Black female figure in modernist French painting from the late 19th-century emergence of Impressionism through the early 20th-century School of Paris. Through a close pictorial analysis of iconic works from Manet’s Olympia and Gérôme’s Moorish Bath to Matisse’s more recently prominent Aicha and Lorette and Woman in White, explore the transformation of this figure from an Orientalist evocation of the French empire to an expanding Black presence in modern Paris from the post-abolition era to World War II.