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Every day, a different object from the Met's collection is featured on the splash page of this website, together with an outtake from our curatorial files about that object's history, creator, iconography, materials, or other interesting attributes.

Fascinating facts about featured artworks are gathered in this archive, by date of appearance on the site. For more in-depth information about these and thousands of other objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit the online Collection Database.



Commemorative Figure: Seated Male, 19th–20th century
Democratic Republic of the Congo or Angola; Kongo peoples, Yombe group
Wood, glass, metal, kaolin; H. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund, Mildred Vander Poel Becker Bequest, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Gift, and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1996 (1996.281)


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Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)

Figures in a Rose Garden, 1450–55

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833–1922)

Air, ca. 1683

André Derain (French, 1880–1954)

Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984)

Ji Eon Kang (American, b. January 31, 1973)

Gazette du bon ton: arts, modes et frivolities, 1912–15 and 1920–25

Robert Capa (American, born Hungary, 1913-1954)

Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991)

Divina proportione, June 1, 1509

Unknown Artist, Unknown School

Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, born Armenia, 1908-2002)

Catafalque of a Knight of Malta, 18th century

Histoire de l'Empereur Napoleon, 1839


Rice Deity (Bulul), 19th–early 20th century

Bernard Romans (American, born Holland 1720–1784 Massachusetts)

Memorial Head (Mma), 17th century

Chuba, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 17th century

Unknown Artist, Unknown School

George Grey Barnard (American, 1863–1938)

Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883–1976)

Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)

Attributed to Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé (French, 1782–1859)

Commemorative Figure: Seated Male, 19th–20th century

Chopi people (Mozambique, Africa)

Workshop of Francesco Granacci (Italian, Florentine, 1469–1543)

Summer

Couple, 17th–late 18th century

Christ Presenting The Keys to Saint Peter and The Law to Paul, 1150-1200


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