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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.

Peale's full-length portraits of George Washington feature the commander at a few different battles. Here, the site is Trenton, New Jersey, where the troops triumphed on Christmas night of 1776.

George Washington, ca. 1779–81
Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827)
Oil on canvas; 95 x 61 3/4 in. (241.3 x 156.8 cm)

Gift of Collis P. Huntington, 1897 (97.33)

See American Paintings and Sculpture for more information about this object.
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Bowl, 9th century; 'Abbasid

A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius, 1449

Pierrot Laughing, 1855

Academie de l'espee; ou se domonstrent par reigles mathématiques sur le fondement d'un cercle mystérieux, la théorie et pratique des vrais . . ., 1628

Chasse: The Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty, ca. 1180–90

South of Scranton, 1931

Violin, 1693

Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Rabat, mid-18th century

Bowl, 1700–1710

Still Life: Balsam Apple and Vegetables, ca. 1820s

Headdress with leaf-shaped ornaments, 2600–2500 B.C.; Early Dynastic period IIIa; Sumerian style

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

Caryatid Stool, 19th century; Luba

Icarus, 1947

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1532


Ritual object (Bi), Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture, ca. 2700–2200 B.C.

Ostracon of Senenmut, ca. 1473–1458 B.C.E.; Dynasty 18, reign of Hatshepsut

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, early 1890s

Coffeepot, 18th century (1756–57)

Statue of a boy, late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Augustan

Pair of doors, ca. 1325–30; Mamluk

Aquamanile: Aristotle Ridden by Phyllis, ca. 1400

Paradise Lost, 1902

Bust of Marie de France (1327–41), Daughter of Charles IV of France, 14th century

Power Figure, 19th–20th century; Songye

Mandora or Chitarino, ca. 1420

The Flatiron, 1904, printed 1909

Part of a Petticoat, mid-to-third quarter of the 18th century

Bureau, ca. 1765

George Washington, ca. 1779–81


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