The Princeton University Art Museum will unveil a special exhibition this Saturday titled "The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris." Featuring works by such renowned artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Nicolas Poussin and Honoré Daumier, the exhibit will be presented in collaboration with the Dahesh Museum of Art of New York.
This spectacular exhibit will include 130 paintings, drawings and prints that sought to revive Homer's vision. These works come from a celebrated collection that has been closed to the public since 1968.
While the University Art Museum exhibit will showcase works dating primarily from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, the exhibit at the Dahesh will concentrate on the nineteenth century.
"This exhibition is not only an important opportunity for museum-goers to experience great works of art that would otherwise be unavailable to them, but it provides the occasion for scholars at Princeton and beyond to experience these extraordinary works firsthand, and to revisit recent research in this critical field," Susan Taylor, the director of the University Art Museum, said in a press release.
Subjects from the Iliad, the Odyssey and related texts were often depicted by the artists of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, a renowned art academy, as well as its successor, the École des Beaux-Arts.
The exhibit will showcase Jacques-Louis David's "Erasistratus Discovers the Cause and Illness of Antiochus (Antiochus and Stratonice)," for which David (in his fourth attempt) won the Grand Prix, the most prestigious prize at the École. The painting will be exhibited alongside its preliminary oil sketch, which is on longterm loan to the University from a private collection. This side-by-side juxtaposition offers a unique opportunity for the close comparison of an oil sketch to its finished academic painting and will be accompanied by a brochure written by Scott Allan GS, a graduate student in the Art and Archaeology department.
"The Legacy of Homer" will be on view through January 5, 2006.
The University Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Dahesh Museum, located at 56th Street and Madison Avenue, is open Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission to the Dahesh is $9 for adults and $4 for students and seniors with ID.
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