Stanford Club of Washington

Frye Art Museum Tour:
Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt

When:
Sunday, October 26
1pm-2pm
(meet in lobby at 12:45 pm)

Location:
Frye Art Museum
Intersection of Terry & Cherry
Seattle
(near St James Cathedral)
Directions/Parking

Cost:
Free

RSVP:
Hank Curci, MS '63
hcurci @ hotmail.com
(remove spaces)
206-860-7950

Details

The SCW has arranged for a guided tour of the latest exhibit at the Frye Art Museum. Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt is a traveling exhibition organized by the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York. Chronicling the dramatic story of Napoleon's ill-fated bid to add Egypt to the growing French Empire (1798-1801), this exhibition showcases the Description de l'Egypte (1809-1828), the seminal multi-volume work that remains the most important European scholarly study of ancient and modern Egypt. Created under the colonizing eye of France, this masterwork--an ambitious attempt to catalogue all of Egypt's wonders, from the architectural ruins of a still mysterious ancient civilization to the indigenous flora and fauna, people, and customs--made North Africans useful to the French empire. The exhibition also includes important Orientalist paintings influenced by the Description and created in the wave of Egyptomania that followed Napoleon's campaign.

More of the Dahesh Museum of Art collection of Orientalist paintings can be seen in Oasis: Western Dreams from the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art, on view at Tacoma Art Museum from September 18, 2008 to January 4, 2009.

For details, see: Frye Art Museum Map & Directions

Note: The Frye is offering this private tour with the docent reserved for us, so please honor your RSVP by attending at the indicated time. Thank you.

The museum is open until 5 p.m.

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