The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Commissioned by San Francisco’s leading banker, Tiburcio Parrott, as a gift for
The manufacture of secular art objects, usually for the purpose of commemoration, personalized these lavish Italian Renaissance interiors.
greater political and financial authority, the middle classes, made up of artisans, bankers
Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, compares the Met’s Jabach portrait with a version that was destroyed in World War II.
the case with the Metropolitan’s new painting by Charles Le Brun of the German banker
Viewed by Academicians and art critics as an artist’s personal reaction to a subject, the sketch was considered to be a sign of genius and originality.
Pierre Charles Jombert ca. 1772 Hagar in the Wilderness Camille Corot 1835 The Banks
New York, 1898–Venice, 1979
The Seligmans were successful New York bankers; the Guggenheims made their fortune
Judith Ogden Thomson , Princeton, N.J. (1986–1996; sale, Christie’s, New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, June 5, 1986, lot 3, as „A Neolithic basin,“ to private collection; her gift to her son; on loan to MMA 1986–1996); Private collection , New York (1996–present; on loan to MMA 1996–present)
of the archaeological remains from Neolithic cultures that flourished along the banks
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Jules Coignet 1844 Fortified Wall at Tivoli Simon Denis ca. 1786–1806 The Banks
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
treasures were created after Charles IV established his new European capital on the banks
1848–1892) 1888 Still Life William Michael Harnett (1848–1892) 1888 The Banker’s
It was part of a service that was purchased that year by a banker on behalf of the
