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Exhibition of Masterpieces Marks the Museum's 125th Anniversary

Invoking the Comic Muse:
Toulouse-Lautrec's Parody of "The Sacred Grove"
February 9 - June 8, 2008

This focus exhibition is centered on a painting by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec that simultaneously pokes fun of and pays homage to the winner of the highest prize at the 1884 Salon, Puvis de Chavannes’s The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and Muses (Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection), also on view. Related works highlight the role that caricature, parody, and pastiche play in Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting and his oeuvre.

An Educated Eye:
the Collections of the Princeton Unversity Art Museum
February 23 - June 15, 2008

The museum celebrates its 125th anniversary with an exhibition featuring many of its most important works selected from among the museum’s distinguished holdings. An Educated Eye also commemorates the publication of the Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections, the first comprehensive guide of the permanent collection in more than twenty years.