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April 2009


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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.




	George Fuller (American, 1822–1884) And She Was a Witch, 1877–84 Oil on canvas; 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of George I. Seney, 1887 (87.8.7)

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		David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610–1690)

		Doors, pair, ca. 1325–30; Mamluk period (1250–1517)

		Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004)

		Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)

		Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress, Middle Bronze Age; 18th–17th century B.C.

		Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984)

		Workshop of Jan Sanders van Hemessen (Netherlandish, active 1519–56)

		Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976)

		William Blake (British, 1757–1827)

		Four-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. second quarter of the 8th century

		Christian Dior (French, 1905–1957), Designer

		Paul Revere, Jr. (American, 1734–1818), Maker

		Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

		John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925); After Nicolas Poussin (French, 1593/94–1665)

		Paolo Pagani (Italian, Castello Valsolda 1661–1716, Milan)

		Lidded Saltcellar, 15th–16th century

		George Fuller (American, 1822–1884)

		Unknown Artist, American School

		Arm Reliquary, ca. 1230

		Author: Charles W. Woolnough (British)

		John Quincy Adams Ward (American, 1830–1910)

		Richard Benson (American, b. 1943)

		Female Dancer, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9)

		Pierre-Louis Pierson (French, 1822–1913)Painted/Retouched by Unknown Artist, French School

		The Unicorn Is Attacked, ca. 1495–1505

		Bird Pendant, 1st–5th century

		Master of the Dinteville Allegory (Netherlandish or French, active mid-16th century)

		Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) (French, 1844–1910)

		Author: George French Angas (British, 1822–1886)

		Arnold Genthe (American, b. Germany, 1869–1942)

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