Connections: Date Night

Editorial assistant Nadja Hansen expounds on why the Met is a great place for a date.

Nadja Hansen

February 14, 2011

4 min. watch

"You get to learn a lot about how people think without the regular formulaic, 'What do you do and how big is your family?'"

Metropolitan Museum of Art Editorial Assistant Nadja Hansen expounds on why the Met is a great place for a date.

Contributors

Nadja Hansen
Former Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department

Art Mentioned

Loving Couple (Mithuna), Ferruginous stone, India (Orissa) — Loving Couple (Mithuna)
India (Orissa)
13th century

Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron), Suzuki Harunobu Japanese, Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with embossing (karazuri), Japan — Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron)
Suzuki Harunobu
1764–72

Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace, Abbondio Stazio Swiss, Wood, stucco, marble, glass, Italian, Venice — Bedroom from the Sagredo Palace
Stuccowork probably by Abbondio Stazio
and Carpoforo Mazzetti Tencalla
ca. 1720 or later

Eternal Spring, Auguste Rodin French, Marble, French — Eternal Spring
Auguste Rodin
modeled ca. 1881, carved 1907

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, Nicolas Huyot, Carved, painted, and gilded oak; bleu turquin marble, gilt bronze; plaster, French, Paris — Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse, Carved, painted, and gilded oak, French, Paris — Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse
French, Paris
ca. 1774, with later additions

Couple at Coney Island, New York, Walker Evans American, Gelatin silver print — Couple at Coney Island, New York
Walker Evans
1928

Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands, Alfred Stieglitz American, Platinum print — Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands
Alfred Stieglitz
1917

Lovers Sitting on a Rock; folio 24 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B", Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish, Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes — Lovers Sitting on a Rock; folio 24 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B"
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1796–97

The Storm, Pierre-Auguste Cot French, Oil on canvas — The Storm
Pierre-Auguste Cot
1880

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), Jacques Louis David French, Oil on canvas — Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David
1788

The Love Letter, Jean Honoré Fragonard French, Oil on canvas — The Love Letter
Jean Honoré Fragonard
early 1770s

Pygmalion and Galatea, Jean-Léon Gérôme French, Oil on canvas — Pygmalion and Galatea
Jean-Léon Gérôme
ca. 1890

Venus and Cupid, Lorenzo Lotto Italian, Oil on canvas — Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto
1520s

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), Peter Paul Rubens Flemish, Oil on wood — Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens
ca. 1635

Young Woman with a Lute, Johannes Vermeer Dutch, Oil on canvas — Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer
ca. 1662–63

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