Monet & Morisot with Emily Beeny

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 1:00 pm ET (10:00 am PT, 19:00 CET)

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Join Emily Beeny, Chief Curator of the Legion of Honor and originating curator of the exhibition Manet & Morisot, for an exploration of the friendship and artistic exchange between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. Unfolding over roughly fifteen years—between 1868 and 1883—theirs was the closest relationship between any two members of the Impressionist circle. Seen side by side, their paintings trace the evolution of a singular friendship by turns collaborative and competitive, playful and charged, lit by an enduring mutual sympathy and a shared desire to make art new.

Emily A. Beeny is Chief Curator of the Legion of Honor and Barbara A. Wolfe Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. A specialist in French paintings and drawings of the 17th-19th century, she received her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation on Nicolas Poussin. Before coming to San Francisco, she served as Associate Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where her exhibition projects included Manet and Modern Beauty (2019-20), LA SURPRISE: Watteau in Los Angeles, and (2021-2022), and Poussin and the Dance (2021-22). She has also held curatorial appointments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Norton Simon Museum and currently serves on both the vetting committee for TEFAF Maastricht and the editorial board for the Boletín del Museo del Prado.  She is developing two exhibition projects at the moment: one devoted to the friendship between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot (opening this fall), and the other, to the French Baroque artist Simon Vouet (scheduled for 2026). In 2021, Emily was awarded the Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises by the Académie française.