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October 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.




	Inscribed by Myochin Muneakira (Japanese, 1673–1745) Mask, dated 1745 Japanese Lacquered iron; L. 9 1/2 in. (24.13 cm) W. 7 in. (17.78 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1919 (19.115.2)

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		The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut, ca. 1473–1458 B.C.; New Kingdom

		John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)

		Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, Seated in Royal Ease, fourth quarter of the 10th–first quarter of the 11th century

		Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian, 1696–1770)

		Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966)

		Ennanga, 19th century

		David Octavius Hill (Scottish, 1802–1870); Robert Adamson (Scottish, 1821–1848)

		Léon Bonnat (French, 1833–1922)

		Morse with Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, mid-14th century

		Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620–1691)

		Openwork stamp seal: horned(?) figure holding snakes, Middle Bronze Age; 3rd–2nd millennium B.C.

		Charles Clifford (Welsh, 1819-1863)

		Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976)

		Inscribed by Myochin Muneakira (Japanese, 1673–1745)

		Symbols of Regeneration: Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Cat, ca. 1990–1900 B.C.; Middle Kingdom

		Plaque: Warrior and Attendants, 16th-17th century

		Dance Mask, early 20th century

		Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer

		Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)

		Fluted bowl, Achaemenid, Darius I or II; 522–486 B.C. or 432–405 B.C.

		Standard with two long-horned bulls, Early Bronze III; 2400–2000 B.C.

		Martin Munkacsi (American, b. Hungary, 1896–1963)

		Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

		Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

		Quilt, Baskets Pattern, ca. 1930

		Kashyapa, dated 1700

		John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816–1872)

		Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997)

		Ralph Lauren (American, b. 1939)

		Unidentified Artist late 14th–early 15th century

		Virgin of the Rosary with Christ Child, God the Father and Holy Spirit, Saints and Donor, late 18th–early 19th century

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