Artwork of the Day from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Margaret Fuller (Marchioness Ossoli)

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Albert Sands Southworth

Artist: Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808–1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire)
Date: ca. 1850
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937
Accession Number: 37.14.10

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Portrait of the Artist

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Mary Cassatt

Date: 1878
Medium: Watercolor, gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper
Dimensions: 23 5/8 x 16 3/16 in. (60 x 41.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Edith H. Proskauer, 1975
Accession Number: 1975.319.1

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Coat of Arms of Albrecht Dürer

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Albrecht Dürer

Date: 1523
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: sheet: 13 13/16 x 10 1/4 in. (35.1 x 26.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number: 52.581.1

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Mask

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Date: 19th–early 20th century
Geography: Republic of Timor-Leste
Culture: Probably Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Medium: Wood, fiber, paint, lime, and hair
Dimensions: H. 9 x W. 5 11/16 in. (22.9 x 14.4 cm)

Classification: Wood-Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, Discovery Communications Inc. Gift and Rogers Fund, 2000
Accession Number: 2000.444

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The Holy Family with Shepherds

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Jacob Jordaens

Date: 1616
Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
Dimensions: 42 x 30 in. (106.7 x 76.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967
Accession Number: 67.187.76

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[Portrait of a Man]

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Mathew B. Brady

Date: ca. 1857
Medium: Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 24.9 x 20.2 cm (9 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 2005
Accession Number: 2005.100.85

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Hunger

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Johan Hagemeyer

Date: 1921
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Estate of Johan Hagemeyer, 1962
Accession Number: 62.684.60

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