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Travel around the world and across 5,000 years of history through 490,000+ works of art.
- European Paintings
Its galleries of nineteenth-century French paintings are...
- Katsushika Hokusai | Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) | Japan | Edo period (1615–1868) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Canopic jar with baboon head | Third Intermediate Period | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Attributed to the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs | Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) | Greek, Attic | Classical | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Marianne Brandt | Tea Infuser and Strainer | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Statuette of Osiris | Late Period | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- John Henry Belter | Sofa | American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Paul Cézanne | Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Duccio di Buoninsegna | Madonna and Child | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- European Paintings
As noted by the museum, "a work by Renoir entered the Museum as early as 1907 (today the Museum has become one of the world's great repositories of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art)." [ 46 ] The museum terms its nineteenth-century French paintings "second only to the museums of Paris," with strengths in "Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent ...
Its galleries of nineteenth-century French paintings are second only to the museums of Paris, presenting in depth the art of Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and others. The collection traces its origins to the Museum’s founding purchase of 174 paintings from European dealers in 1871 ...
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- Julie Le Brun Looking in a Mirror. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun | 1787 | Oil on Canvas | Gallery 616. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun possessed a life made for a movie.
- Washington Crossing the Delaware. Emanuel Leutze | 1851 | Oil on Canvas | Gallery 760. This paining is arguably one of the most famous pictures of American patriotism (at least for me).
- The Death of Socrates. Jacques Louis David | 1787 | Oil on Canvas | Gallery 614. This touching painting will mean almost nothing to the viewer without context and knowing the story.
- The Gulf Stream. Winslow Homer | 1899 | Oil on Canvas | Gallery 767. The Gulf Stream predates the popular film “Jaws” by almost 100 years, but the fear effect is similar.
- Marble statue of a kouros, ca. 590–580 BCE (Gallery 154) For an artwork over 2500 years old, this 6 1/2-foot-tall sculpture depicting a handsome Athenian youth is amazingly intact.
- Queen Mother pendant mask (Iyoba), 16th century (Gallery 136) Nearby is a gallery containing works from sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and the Americas that were once housed in the museum’s Rockefeller Wing, which is undergoing major renovations and will reopen in 2025.
- Sphinx of Hatshepsut, ca. 1479–1458 BCE (Gallery 131) Next we come to our first marquee exhibit: the Temple of Dendur. But we’re not here for the Temple.
- Hermon Atkins MacNeil,The Sun Vow, 1899, cast 1919 (Gallery 700) The American Wing atrium is one of the most iconic spaces in the museum, and its centerpiece one of the museum’s most iconic works: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Diana (1894), which once perched atop Madison Square Garden.
The Met collection represents more than 5,000 years of art from across the globe—from the first cities of the ancient world to works being created today ...
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Our evolving collection contains almost 200,000. works of modern and contemporary art. More. than 104,000 works are currently available online. Has image. On view in the Museum. Recent acquisition. Include uncatalogued works. Show more filters.
