Presented first in Paris in autumn 2004, some 133 objects are divided between The Dahesh Museum of Art and Princeton University Art Museum. Organized by École curator Dr. Emmanuel Schwartz, and coordinated at the Dahesh by Dr. Roger Diederen, this project explores the impact of the renowned Greek poet Homer upon visual artists of the 17th-, 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century France by examining the École’s little-known, collection of paintings and sculptures.
France’s leading art school was once widely known to possess a collection as fine as the Louvre’s. The names in the checklist include David, Ingres, David d’Angers, Rude, Flandrin, Regnault, and Carpeaux, to name a few. The Dahesh presentation features Jacques-Louis David’s Andromache Mourning Hector (usually on loan to the Louvre), along with 19 of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs spoofing Homeric characters, displayed in an original 19th-century cabinet with revolving, doublesided frames.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 384-page catalogue, co-published by the Dahesh and Princeton with Yale University Press.
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