Join Dr Chiara Di Stefano, Associate Curator of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, for an exclusive talk in front of Claude Monet’s The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil. Learn more about the Master of Impressionism, Claude Monet and the painting on loan to the Ferens Art Gallery.
Dr Chiara Di Stefano received her PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris, with a thesis focusing on the impact of prehistoric art on twentieth-century artists. Before joining the National Gallery, she worked at the Centre Pompidou – Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, where she collaborated on a redisplay of the permanent collection and on the exhibition Prehistory: A modern enigma (2019). In the past ten years she has published extensively on modern art and the history of collecting. At the National Gallery she co-curated the exhibitions Degas and Miss La La (2024), Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists (2025 – 2026) and Renoir & Love (3 October 2026 – 31 January 2027).
