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Have some fun while you play with shapes, listen to a story, and learn all about Cézanne's 'Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses.'
Have some fun while you play with shapes, listen to a story, and learn all about Cézanne's "Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses."
From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master
From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master
Artemesia Gentileschi
Artemesia Gentileschi
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
The Private Collection of Edgar Degas
The Private Collection of Edgar Degas


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Currently on View
Velázquez Rediscovered
November 17, 2009–February 7, 2010
Watteau, Music, and Theater
September 22, 2009–November 29, 2009
Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid
September 10, 2009–November 29, 2009
New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries
Opened December 4, 2007


Past Exhibitions
Michelangelo’s First Painting
June 16, 2009–September 7, 2009
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors
January 27, 2009–April 19, 2009
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
November 18, 2008–February 16, 2009
The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions
October 24, 2008–February 1, 2009
J. M. W. Turner
July 1, 2008–September 21, 2008
Gustave Courbet
February 27, 2008–May 18, 2008
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
February 12, 2008–May 11, 2008
The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008
Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings: The Clark Brothers Collect
May 22, 2007–August 19, 2007
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007
Raphael at the Metropolitan: The Colonna Altarpiece
June 20, 2006–September 4, 2006
Girodet: Romantic Rebel
May 24, 2006–August 27, 2006
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881): Vision and Landscape
March 7, 2006–May 29, 2006
Antonello da Messina: Sicily’s Renaissance Master
December 13, 2005–March 5, 2006
Fra Angelico
October 26, 2005–January 29, 2006
Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings
October 18, 2005–December 31, 2005
Duccio's Madonna and Child
December 21, 2004–June 13, 2005
From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master
February 1, 2005–May 1, 2005
Left Unfinished by Albrecht Dürer
January 11, 2005–March 27, 2005
Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
May 27, 2004–August 15, 2004
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
October 23, 2003–January 25, 2004
El Greco
October 7, 2003–January 11, 2004
Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism
October 8, 2003–January 4, 2004
Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and C.S.S. "Alabama"
June 3, 2003–August 17, 2003
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
March 4, 2003–June 29, 2003
A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures
November 19, 2002–February 9, 2003
Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856): The Unknown Romantic
October 22, 2002–January 5, 2003
Gauguin in New York Collections:
The Lure of the Exotic

June 18, 2002–October 20, 2002
The Age of Impressionism: European Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen
June 18, 2002–September 8, 2002
Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy
February 14, 2002–May 12, 2002
Family Life
March 15, 2002–May 12, 2002
Signac 1863–1935: Master Neo-Impressionist
October 9, 2001–December 30, 2001
Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac
October 2, 2001–December 30, 2001
The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
May 24, 2001–November 15, 2001
Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers
September 11, 2001–November 11, 2001
Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930
June 26, 2001–September 9, 2001
Vermeer and the Delft School
March 8, 2001–May 27, 2001
The Still Lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The Music of Silence
November 17, 2000–March 4, 2001
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
March 8, 2000–January 14, 2001
The Birth of Baroque: The Carracci at the Metropolitan
July 7, 2000–September 17, 2000
Chardin
June 27, 2000–September 3, 2000
"Only the Best": Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
November 16, 1999–February 27, 2000
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
October 5, 1999–January 2, 2000

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