Emile Friant (French 1863-1932)
La peine capitale 1908
oil on canvas
The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection, 2002
Alexandre Cabanel (French 1823-1889)
Portrait of Victor Massé 1847
oil on canvas
The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection, 2002
The AGH is delighted to participate in two exciting French exhibitions by loaning paintings from the collection. Both of the paintings being lent are part of The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection and were gifted to the AGH in 2002.
The canvas La Peine capitale | Capital Punishment will travel to Paris for inclusion in The Musée d’Orsay’s exhibition entitled Crime and Punishment. The exhibition examines concepts of criminal violence, punishment and evil over a period of two hundred years: from 1791, when Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau called for the abolition of the death penalty, to 1981, when the bill was passed to abolish it in France. During this period, images of crime or capital punishment arose in the paintings of artists such as Goya, Géricault, Picasso and Magritte. Emile Friant’s depiction of a condemned man being led to a guillotine is a compelling addition to the exhibition. Crime and Punishment will also consider how the themes of criminal violence in music, literature and film informed the visual arts.
The Musée Fabre, Montpellier, has organized the very first retrospective exhibition of the artist Alexandre Cabanel, in which Portrait of Victor Massé will be included. The AGH canvas will travel first to Montepellier (the town where the artist was born) from June 26 to October 31, 2010, and then to the Villa Medici, Rome, from November 2010 - January 2011. Cabanel is known primarily within 19th-century art history for his role as a fierce defender of traditional aesthetic values. As a leading Academic painter and professor at the École des beaux-arts, Cabanel taught hundreds of students from all over the world. Many Canadian artists studied under Cabanel when they travelled to Paris to study art in the late 19th century. The upcoming AGH exhibition The French Connection (Summer 2011) will explore how the French Academic aesthetic influenced Canadian art.
For more information about our permanent collection works and 'AGH On Tour', please contact our Interim Registrar, at 905-527-6610 ext. 249, or e-mail at lucia@artgalleryofhamilton.com.
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