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"Jews in Orientalism"
7 March to  8 July 2012.

The Museum of Art and History of Judaism is staging a major Fine-Arts exhibition from 7 March to 8 July 2012 entitled Jews in Orientalism. Proposed in the form of an exploration of Orientalist painting, the exhibition focuses on the representation of the Jew as ‘Oriental’ in art from 1832 to 1929. The route taken by artists in the early 19th century gave them the chance to discover the Jewish communities living on the banks of the Mediterranean. This unexpected encounter presented a picturesque view of the Orient, often a place coveted in dreams before being visited.

Beyond North Africa, the trip to the Holy Land raised more symbolic issues. Driven by religious aspirations and a new-found archaeological curiosity, which applied to Egypt and as far as Mesopotamia, the West continued its search for its origins in the Near-East.

The exhibition displays the works of Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, Alfred Dehodencq, Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, Wilhem Gentz, Charles Cordier, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, David Roberts, Thomas Seddon, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Gustav Bauernfeind, Alexandre Bida, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre Cabanel, Horace Vernet, Lawrence Alma Tadema, William Holman Hunt, James Tissot, Maurycy Gottlieb, Lesser Ury, Zeev Raban, Ephraïm Moses Lilien, Abel Pann, Reuven Rubin, Nahum Gutman…"

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