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Indepth Arts News:
"Highlights from the Dahesh Museum Collection"
1999-09-14 until 1999-12-31
The Dahesh Museum
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Paul Delaroche’s Pietà, while reacquainting visitors with old favorites like
Adolphe-William Bouguereau’s The Water Girl.
>The very best of what this unique institution has to offer is on view this
fall when a group of 35 paintings, sculptures and prints are assembled to
underscore important themes in 19th-century academic art and the contexts
that shaped them. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s own collection, the
exhibition introduces its newest acquisitions, including the masterwork by
German Orientalist Gustav Bauernfeind, In the Harbor of Jaffa, a fascinating
early Jean-Léon Gérôme painting entitled Michaelangelo in His Studio, and
Paul Delaroche’s Pietà, while reacquainting visitors with old favorites like
Adolphe-William Bouguereau’s The Water Girl.
These works, along with several others by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier,
Jules-Jean-Antoine Lecomte de Nouy, Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, and Sir John
Gilbert serve as focal points for the exhibition. The biblical and
mythological subjects favored by history painters as well as the genre
scenes and Orientalist fantasies that dominated the Paris Salon are
critically examined. Juxtaposing recent acquisitions with works from the
founding collection, Highlights from the Dahesh Museum Collection
demonstrates how art works ‘speak’ to each other -- recalling or
reformulating issues across time, space and media. In addition, since many
of the works on view have recently been added to the permanent collection,
the exhibition invites the viewer to consider how an academic art collection
is built. A full-color catalogue with an historical essay and entries on 70
works from the Dahesh Collection will accompany the exhibition.
The Dahesh Museum is located at 601 Fifth Avenue at 48th Street. Admission
is always free and children are welcome. Hours are 11-6, Tuesday through
Saturday, closed Sunday, Monday and all legal holidays. Admission is free
and the Museum is wheelchair accessible. For more information, call (212)
759-0606 or visit our Website at www.daheshmuseum.org.
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