23 MARCH - 23 JULY 2012

THE TWILIGHT OF THE PHARAOHS. MASTERPIECES OF THE LAST EGYPTIAN DYNASTIES

JACQUEMART-ANDRE MUSEUM, PARIS

For the first time, an exhibition will be devoted to the best creations from Pharaonic Egypt during the ten centuries between the start of the Third Intermediate Period and the end of the Ptolomaic period (1070-30 BC). It will shed new light on this period by revealing its tormented history, with one crisis or invasion following another.

In order to bring together some 140 masterpieces from this period, the Jacquemart-André Museum called on over twenty museums with the greatest wealth of Pharaonic antiquities : the British Museum (London), the Metropolitan Museum (New York), the Ägyptisches Museum (Berlin), the Louvre, among others. The Museum also solicited the help of several private collections in the USA and Europe.

Sculptures, reliefs, sarcophagi, death masks, items of worship and jewellery from tombs and prestigious temples are all illustrations of the richness and diversity of Egyptian art after the last Ramesses. Thanks to a thematic exhibition plan, the Jacquemart-André Museum exhibition evokes the variety of masculine and feminine, royal and divine representations. Splendid funeral items bear witness to the central position that the worship of the dead continues to hold. From the kingdom of the living to the kingdom of the dead, this changing Egypt has multiple faces.

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Olivier Perdu, Egyptologist connected to the Chair of Egyptology of the Collège de France, specialist in the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. In particular, he complied the catalogue raisonné of the private statues from the Late Period at the Louvre museum.

Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, Curator, Jacquemart-André Museum.

General information :

Musée Jacquemart-André

158, bd Haussmann
75008 Paris

Open 365 days a year from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Open every Monday and Saturday evening until 9.30 p.m.

The Jacquemart-André tea room is open from 11.45 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

The cultural gift and bookshop is open when the museum is open, including Sundays

www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com

Press contact : Christelle MAUREAU / christelle@claudinecolin.com

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19. Statue agenouillée de Nakhthorheb provenant de Baqlieh - : Paris, Musée du Louvre – département des Antiquités égyptiennes © RMN/Patrick Leroy
20. Statue-cube de Padichahédédet : Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris - en dépôt au Musée du Louvre © Patrick Pierrain / Petit Palais / Roger-Viollet
21. Cercueil momiforme d’Ânkhemmaât : Collection privée © D.R. / Paul Louis
22. Statue de Thot sous forme d’ibis - : Vienne, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung © Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
23. Statue de Somtous sur un lotus consacrée par Padisopdet - : Collection privée © D.R. / Paul Louis
24. Statue assise à terre de Bès : Lisbonne, Musée Calouste Gulbenkian © Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne – Photo : Catarina Gomes Ferreira