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• Exhibitions to Lend

  The Dahesh Museum of Art has a rich tradition of organizing exhibitions centered on its extensive permanent collection of 19th-century academic art. The curatorial staff has developed a series of exhibitions on subjects that are especially representative of the artists, ideals, and subject matter that dominated academic art during that creative era. The exhibitions listed here range from modestly scaled to substantial and major. In all cases, the exhibition checklist can be tailored to the needs and spaces of the borrowing institution.

  For further information, including proposed checklists, estimated figures for transportation and insurance, fees, and scheduling, please contact:

  J. David Farmer
  Director of Exhibitions
  Dahesh Museum of Art
  dfarmer@daheshmuseum.org
  207-354-6120 or (cell) 207-593-2886

  Rediscovering Egypt
  The Dahesh Museum Of Art Collection

  Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, accompanied by scholars, artists, and archaeologists initiated the 19th-century rediscovery of this extraordinary country. Writers, curious travelers, and, most crucially, artists from many European countries followed and explored all aspects of its ancient and contemporary culture. Rediscovering Egypt surveys the Orientalist artist’s role in Egypt from the collection of the Dahesh Museum of Art, the only institution in America devoted exclusively to collecting and exhibiting 19th-century European academic art.

  The Dahesh Museum of Art is pleased to make Rediscovering Egypt available, selected from one of the finest collections of Orientalist art in America.

  Highlights:

  1. Selections from Description de l’Égypte, the scholarly product of Napoleon’s brief tenure in Egypt
  2. Historic recreations by Alma-Tadema, Long and Bridgman
  3. Evocative land- and city-scapes by Girardet, Frère, and Varley, plus images of ancient Egyptian ruins by Farquharson and Koerner
  4. Genre scenes by such masters as Girardet, Ernst, and Weeks
  5. Romantic narratives by Corrodi and Gentz
  6. A selection of Carter color lithographs and Gérôme photogravures

  

  The Orient Real And Imagined
  The Dahesh Museum Of Art Collection

  The rediscovery in the late 18th and 19th centuries of the Middle East, Egypt, and Ottoman Turkey — then called the Orient — and its representaiton in art and literature has come to be known as Orientalism. The Orient Real and Imagined is a survey of Orientalist art in all mediums and techniques from the collection of the Dahesh Museum of Art — the only institution in America devoted exclusively to collecting and exhibiting 19th-century academic art — and provides early representations of Ottoman courtiers, romantic but accurate images of the Holy Land, scenes of everyday life, archaeologically correct studies, historic recreations and, finally and ironically, representations catering to the fantasies and preconceptions of Western viewers.

  Highlights:

  1. Historic recreations by Alma-Tadema, Long, and Bridgman
  2. Evocative land- and city-scapes by Roberts, Carter, Frère, and Varley, plus images of ancient Egyptian ruins by Farquharson, Koerner, and Gentz
  3. Gustav Bauernfeind’s masterpiece of contemporary Ottoman domination in Jaffa
  4. Genre scenes by such masters as Ernst, Deutsch, Girardet, Pavesi, and Weeks
  5. Ethnographic studies by Tapiró Baró, Fromentin, Mønsted, Cordier, and Marcello
  6. Romantic narrative scenes by Schreyer, Corrodi, and Vernet
  7. Rare ethnographic prints from the 18th-century Ottoman Court
  8. A selection of Gérôme photogravures

  

  Masterworks
  Selections From The Dahesh Museum Of Art Collection

  The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the United States of America devoted to collecting and exhibiting European academic art of the 19th century. Masterworks features drawings, paintings, and sculptures by creative artists trained in the academies and private ateliers of France and other countries, including Jean-Léon Gérôme, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Alfred Lord Leighton, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Jean-Jacques Pradier, and Léon Bonnat, as well as by lesser known but superbly talented contemporaries. Historical and Orientalist subjects — the two dominant themes — are complemented by portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

  Masterworks is a major, high profile exhibition that can be shaped to the scale and special interests of the borrowing museum.

  Highlights:

  1. Selected drawings from academic studies to finished works
  2. Cabanel’s monumental envoi as a student at the French Academy in Rome
  3. Salon works from Bouguereau, Gérôme, and Fabre
  4. Major Orientalist paintings and sculptures by European travelers to the Middle East
  5. Paintings by renowned Victorians
  6. Neo-Classical to Realist landscapes

  

  Reconnecting East And West
  Islamic Ornament In 19th-century Works From The Dahesh Museum Of Art

  The exhibition and publication trace the remarkably rich documentation of Islamic ornament and design by European scholars, artists, and architects who traveled to the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey in the 19th century, following the “rediscovery” of the region (which Westerners called the Orient) in the years after 1800. Reconnecting East & West was initially shown in Dubai to strong critical acclaim and includes paintings, prints, and several of the most beautifully printed books published in the 19th century.

  Highlights:

  1. Genre paintings by Rudolph Ernst and Ludwig Deutsch that showcase Islamic architecture and design
  2. Prints from the Description de l’Égypte and urban views commissioned by Owen Browne Carter
  3. Owen Jones’s groundbreaking Grammar of Ornament and Alhambra, as well as Émile Prisse d’Avenne’s sumptuous L’Art arabe.

  

  The Essential Line
  Drawings From The Dahesh Museum Of Art

  The Essential Line celebrates the act of drawing in the 19th century with a selection of the finest works from the collection of the Dahesh Museum of Art, including exceptional examples of the entire range of drawing techniques and subjects: student work, plein-air sketches, studies for paintings, and finished works of art.

  A checklist of available drawings and selected images are available on request. The exhibition can be tailored for each museum’s individual needs and spaces.

  

• Collaborations

  The Dahesh Museum of Art has been committed to sharing its collection. Each year it lends works of art from its permanent collection to other museums and cultural institutions around the country and the world. These loans, along with collaborative exhibitions, enable the Museum to engage new audiences and promote a lively discussion of art movements and the cultural context that influences how art is understood and appreciated.

  Current Collaborations

  Musei di San Domenico, Forlì (Emilia-Romagna), Italy Pre-Raphaelites: A Modern Renaissance February 23 – June 30, 2024 (3 object loan) Frank Dicksee, Romeo and Juliet

  Upcoming Collaborations

  Past Collaborations

  Musée National des châteaux de Versailles in Versailles, France Horace Vernet (1789–1863) Nov. 14, 2023 – March 17, 2024 (2 object loan) Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet’s A Man in Oriental Costume and Sketch for The Lion Hunt

  Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. Near East to Far West: Fantasies of French and American Colonialism March 5, 2023 – May 23, 2023 (3 object loan) Charles Théodore Frère, Along the Nile at Giza

  Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) October 18, 2022 – January 15, 2023 (2 object loan) Rosa Bonheur, Grazing Sheep in the Pyrenees

  Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) May 18 – September 18, 2022 (3 object loan) Rosa Bonheur, Grazing Sheep in the Pyrenees

  Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration June 12 – October 31, 2021 Gustave Doré, The Black Eagle of Prussia, Paul Césaire Gariot Pandora’s Box, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre Diana

  Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands In the Picture February 21 – August 30, 2020 Jean-Léon Gérôme Working in Marble, or The Artist Sculpting Tanagra

  New-York Historical Society, New York, NY Mark Twain and the Holy Land October 18, 2019 – February 2, 2020 Hubert Sattler, View of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives and Louis Hague, after David Roberts’ Church of the Purification

  Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany Thrill of Deception – From Ancient Art to Virtual Reality August 17 – January 13, 2019 Louis Abel-Truchet, Trompe l’oeil of a Painter

  Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA Keepers of the Flame: Parrish, Wyeth, Rockwell and the Narrative Tradition June 9 – October 28, 2018 (6 object loan) Paul Delaroche, Lamentation

  Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy Herculaneum and Pompeii: Visions of a Discovery June 29 – September 13, 2018 Luigi Bazzani, A Pompeian Interior

  M.A.X. Museo, Chiasso, Switzerland Herculaneum and Pompeii: Visions of a Discovery February 25 – May 13, 2018 Luigi Bazzani, A Pompeian Interior

  Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL Masterfully Human: The Art of Gaugengigl January 23 – April 29, 2018 Ignaz-Marcel Gaugengigl, The Painter

  Leighton House Museum, London, United Kingdom Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity July 7 – October 29, 2017 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh’s Granaries and The Staircase

  Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and Design June 4 – September 4, 2017 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema First Concept for A Reading from Homer

  Österreichiche Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Decadence & Antiquity February 23 – June 18, 2017 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh’s Granaries and The Staircase

  Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL The Black Figure in European Imaginary January 14 – May 14, 2017 (4 object loan)

  Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL Harem: Unveiling the Mystery of Orientalist Art January 24 – April 16, 2017 (4 object loan)

  Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm October 1, 2016 – February 7, 2017 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh’s Granaries and The Staircase

  Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy La Forza delle Rovine (The Strength of Ruins) Oct. 7, 2015 – Jan. 31, 2016 Jean-Léon Gérôme Michelangelo Being Shown the Belvedere Torso

  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902): Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism Jan. 26 – June 7, 2015 Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant Seated Arabs & José Tapiró Baró A Tangerian Beauty

  IDEA InterDisciplinary Arts at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Re-Orientations: Defining and Defying Images of the Arab World March 25 – May 8, 2015 (9 object loan)

  Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL Bouguereau’s ‘Fancies’: Allegorical and Mythological Works by the French Master Jan. 27 – April 19, 2015 William-Adolphe Bouguereau Study for Charity & Henri Godet The Abduction of Psyche

  Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY In the Studio Feb. 17 – April 18, 2015 Jean-Léon Gérôme Working in Marble, or The Artist Sculpting Tanagra

  Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History Oct. 18, 2014 – Jan. 4, 2015 Jean-Jacques Pradier Standing Sappho

  Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902): Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism Oct. 4, 2014 – Jan. 4, 2015 Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant Seated Arabs

  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Gustave Doré (1832–1883): Master of Imagination June 12 – Sept. 14, 2014 Gustave Doré The Black Eagle of Prussia

  National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Josep Tapiró Painter of Tangier April 16 – Sept. 14, 2014 José Tapiró Baró A Tangerian Beauty

  Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet February 22 – May 25, 2014 Rosa Bonheur, Grazing Sheep in the Pyrenees The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet October 19, 2013 – January 19, 2014 Rosa Bonheur, Grazing Sheep in the Pyrenees

  Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France Gustave Doré Master of Imagination Feb. 17 – May 11, 2014 Gustave Doré The Black Eagle of Prussia

  Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs April 13, 2013 – Jan.4, 2014 (5 object loan)