November 20, 2025
28th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture
Thursday, February 12, 2026
5:30 pm
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Lecture Hall, Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Art and Truth: William Hogarth and the English Enlightenment
Frédéric Ogée, Emeritus Professor of British Literature and Art History at Université Paris Cité and École du Louvre
William Hogarth was a pioneering painter and engraver of eighteenth-century Britain. In this lecture, eminent scholar Frédéric Ogée will consider Hogarth’s engagement with the ideas, debates, and values of the English Enlightenment.
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Image: William Hogarth, born in London, England, 1697; active in England; died in London, England, 1764, Self-Portrait, ca. 1735, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.360