The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Permanent Collection

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January 2009


	Works of Art

		Features

		Daily Artwork Archive

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.


			Helmet Mask (Temes Mbalmbal), Mid-20th century Vanuatu; Malakula Island, Mbotgote Wood, vegetable fiber, pig tusks, glass, metal, paint; H x W x D: 26 x 15 1/2 x 19 in. (66 x 39.4 x 48.3 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.1697)

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		Arnold Genthe (American, born Germany, 1869-1942)

		Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)

		Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)

		Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, born 1924)

		Panel with Censing Angels, ca. 1170-1180

		Giotto di Bondone (Italian, Florentine, 1266/76-1337)

		Illuminated Gospel, Late 14th to early 15th century

		Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)

		Aert van der Neer (Dutch, 1603/4-1677)

		Workshop of Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1564/65-1637/38)

		Henry Farrer (American, 1843-1903)

		Theodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)

		Walter Launt Palmer (American, 1854-1932)

		Jacques de La Joue the Younger (French, 1686-1761)

		Franklin Simmons (American, 1839-1913)

		Helmet Mask (Temes Mbalmbal), Mid-20th century

		Unknown Artist, American School

		Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

		Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future, 9th-10th century

		Bruce Davidson (American, born 1933)

		Christoffel van den Berghe (Dutch, born about 1590, died 1628 or later)

		Scenes from the Passion of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics, 1244-1247

		Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

		Peeter Gysels (Flemish, 1621-1690/91)

		Charles Calverley (American, 1833-1914)

		Joachim Patinir (Netherlandish, active by 1515, died 1524)

		William Bradford (American, 1823-1892)

		Vik Muniz (Brazilian, born 1961)

		Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

		[Coronation of Prime Minister Mohar Samser, Nepal], 1942

		Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

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