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November 2005


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		Daily Artwork Archive

Every day, a different object from the Met's collection is featured on the splash page of this website, together with an outtake from our curatorial files about that object's history, creator, iconography, materials, or other interesting attributes.

Fascinating facts about featured artworks are gathered in this archive, by date of appearance on the site. For more in-depth information about these and thousands of other objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit the online Collection Database.




	Homer had problems selling this work partially due to its unpleasant subject matter. Perhaps to make the painting more marketable, the artist added the rigged ship on the horizon that signals hope and rescue from the perils of the sea. The Gulf Stream, 1899 Winslow Homer (1836–1910) Oil on canvas; 28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in. (71.4 x 124.8 cm) Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906 (06.1234)

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		A Storm, 1922

		Cabinet, 1926

		Sugar Bowl, 1789–1821

		Drum, 1st century; Nasca

		Panel: striding lions, 604–562 B.C.; Neo-Babylonian period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar I

		Ariadne, 1913

		Icarus, 1947

		Triton, 16th century (1560–70)

		Haremhab as a Scribe, ca. 1336–1323 B.C.E.; late Dynasty 18, reign of Tutankhamun or Aye; New Kingdom

		Helmet, late 15th century; Ak-Koyunlu/Shirvan period

		Saada, the Wife of Abraham Benchimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters, 1832

		Figure of a female, Iron Age; early 1st millennium B.C.

		Pan box in the shape of a duck, late 17th–early 18th century

		The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789

		Bowl, 10th century

		Standing draped female, late 4th–early 3rd century B.C.; Classical

		Vessel terminating in the forepart of a lion, 5th century B.C.; Achaemenid period

		Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845

		Presentation Smallsword, 1798–99

		Sarangi, late 19th century–early 20th century

		Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891

		The Temple of Dendur, ca. 15 B.C.E.; Roman period

		The Musicians, ca. 1595

		Head of a king, probably Shapur II, 4th century A.D.; Sasanian period

		Heart of the Andes, 1859

		Bowl, 9th century; 'Abbasid

		*Paradise Lost*, 1902

		The Gulf Stream, 1899

		The Assumption of the Virgin, fragment of an altarpiece, ca. 1340

		Head of King David, ca. 1150

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