The Musée d'Orsay continues its partnership with the Collège de France, offering its teachers a unique insight into its collections.
As part of the cycle Orsay vu par le Collège de France, paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin and curator Servane Dargnies-de Vitry work together to explore Fernand Cormon'sCain . This monumental painting, produced in 1880, offers fertile ground for exchanges between art history and prehistory, shedding light on representations of the " first men " in the XIXthcentury.
Wednesday November 12 2025 from 12 h 00 to 13 h 30 in the Musée d'Orsay auditorium.
Speakers
- Jean-Jacques Hublin, Chair Paleoanthropology, Collège de France.
- Servane Dargnies-de Vitry, Curator of Painting, Musée d'Orsay.
