Appleton Painting on Loan to Museum Marmottan Monet, Paris

The Appleton Museum of Art, College of Central Florida, will loan an important Orientalist work from the permanent collection, “Odalisque” by Jean-Léon Gérôme.

In late February, the small but exquisite painting will travel to the Museum Marmottan Monet, located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris with over 300 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. In 1966, Michel Monet, the painter’s second son, bequeathed his property in Giverny to the French Academy of Fine Arts and his collection of paintings, inherited from his father, to the Museum Marmottan Monet. This donation endowed the museum with the largest Monet collection in the world.

The Appleton’s “Odalisque” will be part of a special exhibition entitled, “L’Orient des peintres, du rêve à la lumière,” organized by guest curator Emmanuelle Amiot-Saulnier. On view March 7-July 21, the show will feature 60 masterpieces from the most important public and private collections in Europe and the United States, such as Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The comprehensive exhibition aims to reveal a new look at Orientalist painting and the birth of modern art.

Owned and operated by the College of Central Florida, the Appleton Museum of Art is located at 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, east of downtown on SR 40 (exit 352 east off I-75 or exit 268 west off I-95). Parking is free. For more information, call the Appleton Museum of Art at 352-291-4455 or visit AppletonMuseum.org.