Metropolitan Museum of Art Photos

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) on Fifth Avenue in Central Park is the preeminent art museum in the United States. It has major collections covering the Renaissance, the Impressionists, decorative arts of a range of cultures,.

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MET Museum - Building & Galleries Central Fifth Avenue facade of Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Sculpture gallery seen against Greek revival Bank of the United States building front under skylight at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Modern octagonal gallery with skylight inside Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Early American Painters James Badger portrait by Joseph Badger at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Washington Crossing the Delaware painting by Emanuel Leutze at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Snap-the-Whip painting by Winslow Homer at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - American Hudson River School Painters Landscape scene from Thanatopsis painting by Asher B. Durand at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Lake George painting by John Frederick Kensett at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain painting by Jerome B. Thompson at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - American 20th C Painters Carmencita portrait by William Merritt Chase at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Mrs. HUGH Hammersley portrait by John Singer Sargent at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Lady at the Tea Table painting by Mary Cassatt at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - French Painters Mezzetin painting by Jean Antoine Watteau at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes portrait by Marie Denis Villers at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Spanish Singer painting by Édouard Manet at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - French Impressionist & Modern Painting Collection Tahitian Women Bathing painting by Paul Gauguin at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY By the Seashore painting by Auguste Renoir at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY The Card players painting by Paul Cézanne at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Low Countries Painters Aristotle with a Bust of Homer painting by Rembrandt at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Young Woman with a Water Pitcher painting by Johannes Vermeer at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace painting by Vincent van Gogh at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - European Paintings beyond France & Low Countries Judith with Head of Holofernes painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY St Jerome as Scholar painting by El Greco at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Gala Éluard portrait by Max Ernst at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Pre-Renaissance Painting Collection Detail of Last Judgment tempera painting by Jan van Eyck & workshop at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Detail of devil at feet of St Michael on Assumption of the Virgin by Luca Signorelli & workshop at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY St Michael & St Francis painting by Juan de Flandes at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Sculpture Benjamin Franklin marble bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Robert Louis Stevenson bronze relief by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Herakles the Archer bronze sculpture by Émile-Antoine Bourdelle of Paris at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - World Decorative Arts Collection Chinese Qing dynasty porcelain plate painted with lotus flowers at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Byzantine silver plate with scenes from life of David from Constantinople found in Cyprus at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Papua New Guinea collection at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - American Ceramics Stoneware jar painted with cobalt blue by Thomas Commeraw or David Morgan of New York City at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Earthenware pitcher sculpted as fish & sea creatures by Charles Coxon for E. & W. Bennett Pottery of Baltimore, MD at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Porcelain Bret Harte pitcher by Karl L.H. Müller made by Union Porcelain Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - European Porcelain Sevres porcelain vase in form of elephant heads at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Sèvres porcelain punch bowl with exotic birds attrib. Louis-Denis Armand at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Art Nouveau earthenware dish by Zsolnay Factory of Pécs, Hungary at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - American Glass Blown & engraved glass pitcher prob. from Pittsburgh, PA at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Amberina glass covered jar by Mount Washington Glass Co. of New Bedford at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Blown glass vases by Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co. of Brooklyn, NY at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - European Glass Netherlands glass Roemer with diamond point engraving of map of Rhine River at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Beaker with Chinese Acrobats prob. by Carl von Scheidt of Berlin at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Flowers enameled on glass hexagonal box with lid by Émile Gallé at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Early American Silver Silver teapot by Paul Revere Jr. of Boston at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Silver covered porringer from New York City at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Snake handle detail of silver sauceboat by Anthony Rasch of Philadelphia at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - 20thC American Silver & Metals Detail of medallions attrib. Augustus Saint-Gaudens on silver Bryant Vase made by Tiffany & Co. at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Silver Japanese-style vase by Tiffany & Co. of New York City at Metropolitan Museum of Art at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Silver & precious stones vase by Tiffany & Co. of New York City at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - European Silver Silver tureen with hunting scene handle by Edme-Pierre Balzac of Paris with royal arms added at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Silver coffeepot by Denys Frankson of Paris at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Silver sugar bowl by Bendix Gijsen of Copenhagen, Denmark at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Modern European Decorative Arts Detail of stoneware Art Nouveau fireplace surround attrib. Désiré Muller of Lunéville, France at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Christopher Dresser earthenware pitcher made by Linthorpe Pottery plus vase made by Ault Pottery of England at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Terracotta jardinière by Archibald Knox made by Carter & Co. for retailer Liberty & Co. at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - European Aquamanile Samson fighting lion bronze aquamanile from Northern Germany at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Copper alloy horse aquamanile from Nuremberg, Germany at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Aristotle & Phyllis bronze aquamanile from Southern Netherlands at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Early American Furniture High chest of drawers from Boston, MA at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Chest of drawers with heavy block & shell carvings from Newport, RI by John Townsend at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Étagère over sideboard by Alexander Roux of New York City at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Late 19thC American Furniture Gothic revival armchair possibly by Gustave Herter made for Belvoir mansion in Yonkers, NY at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Four seasons cabinet by Herter Brothers part of 10 piece set made for Jay Gould's house at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Music-room side chair by Herter Brothers perhaps for LeGrand Lockwood mansion of Norwalk, CT at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - American Arts & Crafts Hexagonal library table by Gutave Stickley made by Craftsman Workshops of Eastwood, NY at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Frank Lloyd Wright slant-back side chair for Larkin Building of Buffalo, NY & earlier version with higher support for perhaps his own Oak Park home at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Shaker revolving chair from New Lebanon, NY at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Louis Comfort Tiffany Art Details of loggia from Laurelton Hall, Oyster Bay, NY by Louis C. Tiffany of Tiffany Studios, New York City at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Table lamp with Lotus shade by Louis C. Tiffany of Tiffany Studios, New York City at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Porcelaneous earthenware covered bowl by Tiffany Studios at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - European Furniture & Rooms Secrétaire à Abattant which mimics organ in Biedermeier style from Austria plus side chair of the era at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Sofa made for king of Sardinia by Filippo Pelagio Palagi & made by Gabriele Capello of Italy at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Art Nouveau Wisteria dining room by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer from Paris at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Egyptian Collection Funerary blue amulet of kneeling god with wings from Egypt early Ramesside period at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Egyptian wall painting facsimiles at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait of boy Euryches at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
MET Museum - Native American Collection Lambayeque hammered gold funerary mask from Peru at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Moche gold & inlaid earflares, Peru at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY Ceramic vulture vessel of Aztec, Mexico at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
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