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.

Board

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

1   |   2   |   3      »      

Download the press pack	[+]
Download other images	[+]
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

Captions
1. Coffret à viscères d’Ânkhemmaât : Collection privée © D.R. / Paul Louis
2. Statue de Ptah-Sokar-Osiris de Padihorpakhéred : Florence, Musée égyptien © Soprintendenza Beni Archeologici della Toscana
3. « Tête verte de Berlin » : Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, donation : James Simon © SMB Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Foto : Sandra Steiß
4. Statue debout d’une reine - : Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung © SMB Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Foto: Sandra Steiß
5. Statue debout théophore de la dame Tachéretptah : Collection privée © D.R. / Paul Louis
6. Statue debout fragmentaire dite « statue Dattari » : New York, Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund © Brooklyn Museum 52.89 Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
7. Autre figure féminine nue : New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist. RMN/image of MMA
8. Statue fragmentaire d’Amon - : New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist. RMN/image of MMA
9. Stèle funéraire de Payesheres : Vienne, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung © Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna