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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • News Items : The Jabach Family by Charles Le Brun Joins the Met 16/05/2014

    This fundamental painting, still lacking seriously at the Louvre, has just joined the Metropolitan Museum. However, the Parisian establishment is not to blame in this case since it was never given the opportunity to purchase this work which left (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : The Met Acquires another Ewer from the Kugel Gallery at TEFAF 15/03/2014

    The evening of the inauguration for TEFAF (the Maastricht Fair), the Metropolitan, which had recently acquired a ewer from the Kugel gallery, again made a purchase from the same dealers, a second ewer with its (...)

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  • News Items : A 16th century Ewer for the Met 06/02/2014

    The spout on this unique object presents a fantastic creature with a man's head and the bust of a winged woman resting on the mask of a mustachioed man with his mouth wide open. The handle is in the shape of a hybrid being with a serpent's body (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : Four Paintings Acquired by the Metropolitan 29/08/2013

    Several paintings recently joined the collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world's most active in its acquisitions policy. An oil on copper from the early 17th century representing a cardinal and his suite was donated to the (...)

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  • News Items : The Metropolitan Acquires a 12th century Enamelled Plaque 17/06/2013

    Estimated at between 150 and 200,000 euros, an enamelled plaque from the late 12th century soared to 680,000 euros at the auction organized by Etienne de Baecque and Géraldine d'Ouince in Lyon on 27 May 2013. The happy buyer is none other than (...)

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  • News Items : The Metropolitan Acquires a Painting by Charles Le Brun 03/05/2013

    The Metropolitan Museum pronounced the winning bid of 1.44 million euros (including charges) for the Le Brun painting last 15 April at Christie's Paris. Entitled The Sacrifice of Polyxena, the work resided at the Ritz (located in the Hôtel (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • Art Market : High Attendance at the Salon du Dessin 2013 12/04/2013

    Tuesday evening, a large crowd eagerly attended the inauguration of the Salon du Dessin, more so than last year. This high attendance was all the more appreciated by the dealers because, according to them, major collectors and curators (French, (...)

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  • News Items : A Bronze by William Theed for the Metropolitan Museum 20/03/2013

    At almost life size, a bronze by William Theed, the Elder, was acquired by the Metropolitan in 2012 from the Tomasso Brothers Fine Art gallery. It represents Thetis sitting on a shell carrying her son Achilles' arms from Vulcan's forge. She (...)

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  • News Items : A David Drawing Purchased by the Met for $840 11/03/2013

    Paul Jeromack announced it in an article published in The Art Newspaper : the Metropolitan Museum last 29 January purchased a drawing by Jacques-Louis David at an auction held at Swann Galleries in New York for the very reasonable amount of $700 (...)

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  • News Items : Santi di Tito, Trevisani, Ribera, Three Paintings for the Metropolitan Museum 15/01/2013

    Of the major museums, the Metropolitan is no doubt the one with the most active acquisitons policy at the moment. We try to provide regular updates but it is sometimes hard to keep up with their pace. This is especially true for the drawings as (...)

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  • News Items : Free Downloading Offered by the Metropolitan Museum for its Out-of-Print Publications 15/10/2012

    The Metropolitan Museum is innovating by launching MetPublications which offers free PDF downloading of a part, and eventually all, of its out-of-print publications (exhibition catalogues, colloquia proceedings, collection catalogues...). Anyone (...)

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  • News Items : A Portrait of Talleyrand by François Gérard Joins the Metropolitan Museum 09/10/2012

    What a masterpiece ! The expression might sound a bit trite but is the first to come to mind when looking at the Portrait of Talleyrand by François Gérard just acquired by the Metropolitan Museum from the Wildenstein Gallery in New York. The (...)

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  • News Items : A Drawing by Baron Gérard for the Metropolitan 20/09/2012

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently acquired a drawing by Baron Gérard, Daphnis Running after Chloé, an illustration project which was never used for The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloé, from the Terrades Gallery in Paris. This (...)

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  • News Items : Several Important Donations by Mrs. Charles Wrightsman to the Metropolitan Museum 29/05/2012

    At the age of 93, Jayne Wrightsman, the widow of Charles Wrightsman, continues the patronage which she and her husband (who died in 1986) have always pursued towards the Metropolitan Museum. This American institution has thus received a donation (...)

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  • News Items : A Francesco Maffei Bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum 07/05/2012

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art received a bequest in the form of a painting by Francesco Maffei which we had overlooked in our news item of 24 April and which joined the museum collections in 2012. Representing Hagar and the Angel, dating from (...)

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  • News Items : The Metropolitan Acquires a Carlo Francesco Nuvolone and a Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg 25/04/2012

    The Metropolitan Museum recently acquired two 17th and 19th century paintings, their only point in common being that they are both from Italy. The first is a Woman Martyr by the Lombard painter, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone , bequeathed to the (...)

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  • News Items : Two Medieval Sconces Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum 15/03/2012

    The Metropolitan Museum recently purchased two copper sconces representing the Evangelists Mark and Luke from the Parisian gallery, Brimo de Laroussilhe. The identification is indicated by the inscription visible on the tablets : Christum de (...)

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  • News Items : Two Medici Vases Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum at the Fabius Auction 26/10/2011

    The first day of the Fabius auction which took place on 26 October at Sotheby's Paris, the Metropolitan Museum acquired the pair of Medici vases, second size, in hard-paste Sèvres porcelain, painted and signed by Jean-François Robert, a specialist (...)

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  • News Items : Recent acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum 02/05/2011

    Besides the acquisition of a painting and a drawing by Perino del Vaga which we already pointed out, several other works have joined the Metropolitan Museum since the beginning of the year. At the same auction at Sotheby’s New York on 27 January, (...)

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  • News Items : Two Perino del Vaga works for the Metropolitan Museum 10/03/2011

    In just two days, the 26 and 27 January 2011, the Metropolitan Museum acquired a drawing by Perino del Vaga, one of Raphael’s most important pupils, at Sotheby’s auction in New York, then also a painting by the same (...)

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  • News Items : Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum : Italian drawings 03/02/2011

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a considerable number of drawings over the past few years, and it would be almost impossible to cover the subject in an exhaustive manner. We will post an acquisition database in the next few months (...)

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  • News Items : The Thaw landscape collection donated to the Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library 18/10/2010

    18/10/10 – Acquisitions – New York, Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library – The news did not make the headlines despite its importance : last year, Gene and Clare Thaw, already generous donors to the Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library made (...)

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  • News Items : Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum : Gérôme and Tissot 21/06/2010

    We continue our presentation here of recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum with three 19th century French paintings donated by Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.

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  • News Items : Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum : Annibale Carracci and Gaetano Gandolfi 13/06/2010

    In 2009 the Metropolitan Museum received a small copper by Annibale Carracci representing Saint John the Baptist Showing Christ as a donation from Fabrizio Moretti and Adam Williams in tribute to Everett Fahy. The work had been sold at Sotheby’s (...)

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  • News Items : Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum : Edgar Degas 08/04/2010

    With an already rich collection of Edgar Degas works starting with the Havemeyer donation in 1929 as well as others which have followed since, the Metropolitan Museum recently added to this ensemble two paintings and a drawing by the (...)

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  • News Items : Acquisition of a Valentin de Boulogne by the Met 03/12/2008

    The New York museum has enriched its collection with an important painting by Valentin de Boulogne representing a lute player

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  • News Items : Delacroix acquired by the Met in tribute to Philippe de Montebello 22/09/2008

    Late last spring, and with help from the Wrightsman fund, the Met acquired a canvas by Eugène Delacroix

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  • News Items : Thomas Campbell, new director of the Metropolitan Museum 09/09/2008

    It was the most awaited nomination in the museum world. Thomas Campbell has just been named director of the Metropolitan Museum succeeding Philippe de Montebello who

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  • News Items : A recently found drawing by Lucas de Leyde acquired by the Met 12/08/2008

    At the end of July, the Metropolitan Museum announced the purchase of a rare unpublished drawing by Lucas de Leyde, one of 28 which carry the artist’s signature

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  • News Items : The small Pietà by Domenichino acquired by the Met 29/06/2008

    On 5 July 2007, Christie’s London presented a small Piet by Domenichino on copper

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  • Exhibitions : Poussin and Research. A scholar day at the Met 16/05/2008

    Exhibitions are quite often the perfect occasion to assemble not only works but also researchers by bringing them together usually for two or three days, be it at times in a fishbowl, close to the paintings. This is known as a colloquium. It is (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Poussin and Nature 23/04/2008

    The Poussin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, which arrived here from Bilbao, cannot be reduced to its title alone. First of all because it is a veritable retrospective given the continuous presence of nature and landscapes throughout the (...)

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  • News Items : Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum 10/03/2008

    Many of the acquisitions made by the Metropolitan Museum in recent months have not been mentioned here and it is now high time that we take a look at the latest additions

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  • News Items : Philippe de Montebello, director of the Met, announces his future retirement 11/01/2008

    Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum for more than thirty years officially announced to the Board of Trustees yesterday that he would retire at the end of 2008. The question of who would be chosen to replace Montebello who (...)

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  • News Items : Two works by Carus for the Louvre and the Met 02/12/2007

    The Louvre is exhibiting until December 3 as its painting of the month a work by Carl Gustav Carus

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