For almost 100 years, a masterpiece by one of the few female members of the prestigious Paris Salon was missing. Happily, Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit reappeared in 2022 and now hangs at the National Gallery of Art. Aaron Wile, the associate curator of French painting, explores this work’s fascinating story and Vallayer-Coster’s life. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)