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Image	Title of Work of Art	Artist or Culture of Origin	Date or Style or Period	Materials and Techniques	Accession Number	Collection
	Adam	Auguste Rodin	modeled in 1880; this bronze case in 1910	Bronze	11.173.1	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Thomas F. Ryan, 1910
	Aeneas Erects a Tomb to His Nurse Caieta and Flees the Country of Circe	Master of the Aeneid	ca. 1530–35	Enamel, painted and partly gilded, on co...	88.3.85	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888
	Air: Louis XIV as Jupiter, from a set of eight wall hangings depicting the Elements and the Seasons		ca. 1683	Silk, wool, and metal thread	46.43.4	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, 1946
	"Allegorical Figures"	Léon-Victor Solon	ca. 1893	Printed silk	2000.48	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2000
	Allegory of Earth	Jean-Pierre Defrance (attributed to)	ca. 1750	Marble	64.93.1-4	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1964
	Amélie de Montfort	Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux	1868–69	Terracotta	1989.289.2	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1989
	An Englishman	Pierre-Antoine Verschaffelt	1740	Carrara marble, gray marble (pedestal)	1978.3	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, Inc. Gift and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation, ...
	Angeli Laudantes	Edward Burne-Jones; John Henry Dearle	1898	Wool and silk weft on cotton warp (15 wa...	2008.8	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, 2008
	Apollo	Adriaen de Vries	ca. 1595–97	Bronze	41.190.534	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941
	Armchair		ca. 1710	Carved and gilded walnut, covered in lat...	1983.526	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, by exchange, 1983
	Armchair	Karl Friedrich Schinkel	ca. 1828	Gilded mountain ash, brass	1996.30	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr., Irwin Untermyer, and John D. Rockefeller Jr., by exchange, ...
	Armchair	Joseph-Pierre-François Jeanselme, Jacque...	ca. 1850	Carved rosewood, leather, silk, serge	1995.164	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts and Rogers Fund, 1995
	Armchair		ca. 1860	Gilded wood, upholstered in modern green...	1998.382	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1998
	Armchair	John Mayhew and William Ince	1769	Gilded fruitwood, tapestry	58.75.16	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
	Armchair (bergère en cabriolet)	Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené	1788	Carved, painted, and gilded walnut	41.205.2	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1941
	Armchair (bergère en cabriolet) (one of a pair)	Claude-Louis Burgat	ca. 1760–70	Carved and gilded beechwood	1982.60.89	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
	Armchair (part of a large set)	Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot	1753	Carved and gilded beechwood, covered wit...	35.145.26a,.25b	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The frame: Purchase, Martha Baird Rockefeller Gift, 1966; The tapestry covers: Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1935
	Armoire	Attributed to André-Charles Boulle	ca. 1710	Tortoiseshell, engraved brass, and ebony...	59.108	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Fletcher Fund, 1959
	Astronomical Table Clock		second quarter of 16th century	Case of gilt bronze and gilt brass; move...	17.190.747	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	The Audience of the Chinese Emperor		ca. 1766	Hard-paste porcelain	50.211.217	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
	Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock	James Cox	1766	Case: gold, with diamonds and paste jewe...	1982.60.137	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
	Autumn	Nicolas-Sébastien Adam le Jeune and Ange...	1745		66.29.2	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gi...
	Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children	Gian Lorenzo Bernini	17th century (ca. 1616–17)	Marble	1976.92	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, Fletcher, Rogers, and Louis V. Bell Funds, and Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by ex...
	Bacchante with Lowered Eyes	Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux	1872	Terracotta	11.10	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, 1911
	Bacchante, also known as Grapes	Auguste Rodin	ca. 1874	Terracotta, on a wooden base	1975.312.7	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The Charles Ulrich and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1975
	The Bather (model for a fountain)	By or after Jean-Antoine Houdon	18th century (ca. 1780) or 19th–early 20th century	Terracotta	32.100.159	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
	Bather (statue from a fountain group)	Jean-Antoine Houdon	18th century (1782)	Marble	14.40.673	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
	Beaker and saucer		ca. 1775	Hard-paste porcelain	1982.60.177,.178	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
	Bedroom from Sagredo Palace, Venice	Abbondio Stazio of Massagno and Carpofor...	18th century (ca. 1718)	Wood, stucco, marble, glass	06.1335.1a-d	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, 1906
	Bell salt	Master T.S.	1600–1601	Silver gilt	68.141.92a-d	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968

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