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Connections: Date Night

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

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Nadja Hansen
Former Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department

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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
Abbondio Stazio
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; marble; 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