Celebrating 50 years of the Temple of Dendur at The Met, this web feature offers essays, videos, and articles exploring its rich history.
Johnson awarded an ancient Egyptian temple built in the first century BCE—a gift
Marking: 1) (on nameboard) Loud & Brothers/Philadelphia;2) (in ink on back of soundboard) William Moore/Philadelphia/Jany 29th 1831./No 477 [and again in another hand] 477;3) (stamped on top key) T
Hufstader Gift, Richard B.
Image: 8 1/8 × 5 9/16 in. (20.7 × 14.2 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964 (64.101.59a
/16 × 1 5/16 in. (45.4 × 32.3 × 3.3 cm) Classification: Books Credit Line: Gift
42.9 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Purchase, The Sylmaris Collection, Gift
30 1/2 × 21 1/2 in. (77.5 × 54.6 cm) Classification: Drawings Credit Line: Gift
Inscription: Inscribed in graphite with numerous color notations, including, in left margin: „violet / fond jaune / violet / filaments bleus / fond blanc“; top center: „baguettes vertes et rouges“; right margin: „bleu et jaune le milieu des fleurs / bleu / violet / vert“; far right (oriented perpendicularly): „l’aigle qui [illegible]“Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower left: Delacroixp estate mark (Lugt 838a)
Overall: 4 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (11.4 x 18.1 cm) Classification: Drawings Credit Line: Gift
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts and Anne Levy Charitable Trust Gift, 2023
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Max Hollein February 17, 2021 Seeing the Sublime in a Gift of Paintings Four beloved
