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Exhibition History 1995 - 2007
  • Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré
    January 23, 2007 - April 22, 2007
  • Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
    June 8, 2006 - December 31, 2006
    January 23, 2007 - April 22, 2007

  • Stories to Tell: Masterworks from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
    February 14 - May 21, 2006

  • The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
    11 October 2005 - 22 January 2006

  • The Dahesh Collection: Celebrating a Decade of Discovery
    24 May - 22 September 2005

  • First Seen: Photographs of the World's Peoples, 1840-1880
    February 1 - May 1, 2005

  • Facing the Other: Charles Cordier, Ethnographic Sculptor
    October 12, 2004 - January 13, 2005

  • From Homer to the Harem: The Art of Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ
    June 22 - September 19, 2004

  • Staging the Orient: Visions of the East at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera
    March 2 - May 30, 2004

  • Charles Bargue: The Art of Drawing
    November 25, 2003 - February 8, 2004

  • French Artists in Rome: Ingres to Degas, 1803-1873
    September 3 - November 2, 2003

  • Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
    Exhibited at the National Academy of Design Museum
    September 12, 2002 - December 8, 2002
  • Fire & Ice: Treasures from the Photographic Collection of Frederic Church at Olana
    June 4, 2002 - August 24, 2002
  • French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
    February 20, 2002 - May 18, 2002
  • Telling Tales II: Religious Images in 19th-Century Academic Art
    October 16, 2001 - January 26, 2002
  • Telling Tales I: Classical Images from the Dahesh Museum of Art
    May 29, 2001 - September 29, 2001
  • Gérôme & Goupil: Art and Enterprise
    February 6, 2001 - May 5, 2001
  • A Distant Muse: Orientalist Works from the Dahesh Museum of Art
    September 5, 2000 - December 30, 2000
  • In the Footsteps of Goethe: Paintings and Drawings from German Collections
    May 30, 2000 - August 19, 2000
  • Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian
    January 18, 2000 - May 13, 2000
  • Highlights from the Dahesh Museum Collection
    September 14, 1999 - December 31, 1999
  • Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine
    June 8, 1999 - August 28, 1999
  • A New Generation: Student Work from the New York Academy of Art
    May 4, 1999 - May 22, 1999
  • A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, England
    January 19, 1999 - April 17, 1999
  • French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition
    September 22, 1998 - January 2, 1999
  • Image and Text: Orientalist Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection
    June 30, 1998 - September 5, 1998
  • Training An Artist: Alexandre Cabanel and the Academic Process in 19th-Century France
    March 10, 1998 - June 13, 1998
  • Rosa Bonheur: All Nature's Children
    December 17, 1997 - February 21, 1998
  • The Dahesh Salon: Art, Patronage and Presentation in America
    September 16, 1997 - November 29, 1997
  • The Dahesh Salon: The European Experience
    July 1, 1997 - September 6, 1997
  • Religion and the Rustic Image in Late Academic Art
    March 4, 1997 - June 7, 1997
  • Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Greece and Rome from the Collection of the Berkshire Museum
    October 22, 1996 - February 15, 1997
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Classical Imagination
    October 22, 1996 - February 15, 1997
  • On the Prowl: Hunters and the Hunted
    June 25, 1996 - October 5, 1996
  • Cupids: Flights of Fancy, Love and Mischief
    February 13, 1996 - June 8, 1996
  • Picturing the Middle East: A Hundred Years of European Orientalism
    October 17, 1995 - January 27, 1996
  • Pleasures of Rural Life: Domestic Scenes and Animals in Academic Art
    June 27, 1995 - September 23, 1995
  • When Art Was Popular: The Salon and the Royal Academy in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
    January 20, 1995 - June 10, 1995

Traveling Exhibitions

  • A Distant Muse
    Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
    September 20, 2008 - January 4, 2009
  • Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
    Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
    September 20, 2008 - January 4, 2009
  • Napoleon on the Nile
    Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
    March 15, 2008 - June 18, 2008
  • Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
    The Society for the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
    January 3, 2003 - February 9, 2003
  • Fire & Ice: Treasures from the Photographic Collection of Frederic Church at Olana
    Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    October 18, 2002 - January 19, 2003
  • A Distant Muse: Orientalist Works from the Dahesh Museum of Art
    Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL
    January 19, 2001 - April 1, 2001
    Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
    December 22, 2001 - March 3, 2002
    Flint Art Institute, Flint, MI
    September 20, 2002 - November 3, 2002
  • Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian
    Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA
    October 2, 1999 - January 2, 2000
    Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
    July 9, 2000 - September 24, 2000
  • A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, England
    Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
    May 6, 1999 - July 4, 1999
    City Museum, Helsinki, Finland
    August 1999 - September 1999

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