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August 2009


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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.




	Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) Dressing for the Carnival, 1877 Oil on canvas; 20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1922 (22.220)

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		Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

		O-daiko, ca. 1873

		Louis Goy (active ca. 1940s)

		William Wetmore Story (American, 1819–1895)

		Unknown Artist, American School

		Judith Leiber (American, b. Budapest, 1921)

		David Lucas (British, Northamptonshire 1802-1881 London)

		Statue of Gudea, 2150–2100 B.C.

		Anonymous, South American

		Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, Cluny 1758-1823 Paris)

		Chadri, 20th century

		Andrea Sacchi (Italian, Rome(?) ca. 1599-1661 Rome)

		Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)

		Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

		Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)

		Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, b. Armenia, 1908-2002)

		Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

		David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, 1896–1975)

		Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811–1894)

		Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, ca. 50–40 B.C.

		Mask (Mukudj), 19th–20th century

		James Robertson (British, 1813–1881)

		Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

		Jean Pucelle (French, active in Paris, ca. 1320–1334)

		Studio of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp); Attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)

		Pendant Mask: Iyoba, 16th century

		John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816–1872)

		Daniel Chester French (American, 1850–1931)

		Mask: Female Figure (Karan-wemba), 19th–20th century

		Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

		Bust of Warrior, 5th–6th century

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