BEHIND THE SCENES: Each Monday we are switching the four highlighted portraits in “Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts”. This exhibition explores 400 years of portrait drawings, emphasizing work from live models. Each week, a different set of four portraits from different centuries and with different formal qualities will be hung "in dialogue" with each other in a specially-built room located in the center of The Drawing Center’s Main Gallery. Forty portraits have been chosen from the Beaux-Arts de Paris' collection based on diverse criteria such as the male and female gestures, caricature, frontal gaze, social class, and profession of the model. #portraits #BeauxArts