Public domainMedal of Gates at Saratoga
Marie Joséphine Nicolas · 1777
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
An Egyptian temple sits indoors, a few rooms from Washington crossing the Delaware. The Met is less a museum than a city block of them.
What to see
The Met is too large to see in a day, so most first visits pick a wing and stay in it. These are the works and rooms people cross the city for.
The Temple of Dendur
An Egyptian temple of about 15 BC, given by Egypt in 1965 and rebuilt inside a glass hall facing Central Park.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Leutze painted it in Düsseldorf in 1851; it fills a wall of the American Wing.
The European paintings galleries
Five Vermeers, more than any museum outside the Netherlands, among the Dutch rooms.
The Astor Court
A Ming-style scholar’s garden, built in New York by craftsmen from Suzhou.
The roof garden
A commissioned installation each summer, over the park.
Also at the museum, not yet free to picture
The Costume Institute
Dress from the fifteenth century on, shown in changing exhibitions.
Artists
The Met has collected on this scale since 1870, and its open-access programme has put hundreds of thousands of images into the public domain. These are the artists you can stream on Momentable.
Switzerland · 1741–1807
United States · 1871–1916
French · 1822–1899 · realism
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
France · 1755–1842
France · 1749–1803
France · 1841–1895
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1846–1901
1596–1676
United States · 1868–1905
France · 1744–1818
United States · 1844–1907
Hungary · 1899–1925
Artworks
The Death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David · 1787
Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · ca. 1785
Bearded, bare-chested male figure, study for "The Horse Fair"
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–53
An Allegory of Lyric Poetry
Marie-Gabrielle Capet · 1811
Waka Poem: “Across the fields and hills…”
Ōtagaki Rengetsu · 19th century
A Poppy in Three Stages of Flowering, with a Caterpillar, Pupa and Butterfly
Johanna Helena Herolt · late 17th–early 18th century
Chef des Eunuques (head of the Eunuchs), from the series "Caravane du Sultan à la Mecque..." (Caravan of a Sultan Going to Mecca)
Marie-Thérèse Reboul · 1748
Egyptian Revival Triptych
Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke · 1874 or after
The Entombment of Christ
Luisa Roldán · 1700–1701
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes
Charlotte Eustace Sophie de Fuligny-Damas · 1780
Saint Margaret Pointing to Heaven, with a Globe Next to Her
Maria Clara Eimmart · 1693
John Neal Tilton
Emma Stebbins · ca. 1865
Sources
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