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Museums Without Men: Rosa Bonheur

March 8, 2024

By Katy Hessel

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The Artist Project: Wayne Thiebaud

December 7, 2015

Artist Wayne Thiebaud reflects on Rosa Bonheur's _The Horse Fair_ in this episode of The Artist Project.

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March Curator Interview

March 16, 2010

By Jennette Mullaney

Jennette Mullaney, associate email marketing manager, spoke with Rebecca Rabinow, associate curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, about The Horse Fair, a monumental painting by Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899).

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"A Greek Inscription in a Portrait by Salvator Rosa"

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its purpose is to publish original research on works in the Museum’s collection. Articles are contributed by members of the Museum staff and other art historians and specialists.

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Celebrate Women's History Month with Art!

March 23, 2016

By Aliza Sena

Aliza Sena, associate coordinator for Digital Learning, rounds up seven artworks to celebrate Women's History Month.

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Museums Without Men at The Met

March 8, 2024

By Katy Hessel

Traverse the Museum’s galleries highlighting remarkable achievements by women artists.

Essay

Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France

September 1, 2008

By Nicole Myers

While amateur talents in drawing and watercolor were encouraged as part of a good bourgeois education, professional careers for women who did not need to work were considered detrimental as they were thought to divert women from their prescribed roles as wives and mothers.

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What Artists See: The Artist Project, Season 4

December 8, 2015

By Keith Christiansen

Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, shares his excitement for the latest season of The Artist Project.

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Nineteenth-Century French Realism

October 1, 2004

By Ross Finocchio

Rejecting the idealized classicism of academic art and the exotic themes of Romanticism, Realism was based on direct observation of the modern world.

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Today in Met History: November 15

November 15, 2011

By Rebecca Weintraub

One hundred and twenty-five years ago today, on November 15, 1886, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Board of Trustees officially approved the establishment of the institution's first curatorial departments—the Department of Paintings, Department of Sculpture, and Department of Casts.