Artwork of the Day from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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Portrait of Maria Gaet - Agnesi

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio

Date: n.d.
Medium: Brush and brown wash over graphite underdrawing.
Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 4 3/4in. (17.1 x 12cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number: 49.19.104

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Lilacs

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Henri Matisse

Date: 1914
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 57 1/2 x 38 in. (146.1 x 96.5 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002
Accession Number: 2002.456.4
Rights and Reproduction: © 2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Thomas Gainsborough

Date: ca. 1770
Medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, blue and brown washes, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions: Overall: 8 13/16 x 12 5/8 in. (22.4 x 32 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number: 1972.118.291

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Breastplate (Civanovonovo)

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Date: early 19th century
Geography: Fiji
Culture: Fijian
Medium: Whale ivory, pearl shell, fiber
Dimensions: H. 7 5/8 x W. 7 3/4 x D. 1 1/8 in. (19.4 x 19.7 x 2.8 cm)
Classification: Bone/Ivory-Ornaments
Credit Line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1960
Accession Number: 1978.412.746

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