To support “Dialect[ic]s of Diplomacy: American and French Political Portraits during the Revolutionary and Federal Eras, circa 1776–1815,” an international scholarly conference scheduled for September 24–25, 2014, at and in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C. The conference will bring together American and French scholars to consider American-French political-cultural exchange between 1776 and 1815 through an analysis of portraiture.