One of the most visually striking period rooms in the American Wing, the Richmond Room offers a curated suggestion of the grandeur of early-nineteenth-Âcentury domestic life for wealthy Americans.
for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia
The Painting: Paul Cézanne often has been called a master of still-life painting. In The Met’s picture, we can see why. The white tablecloth and the apples rise and fall in variegated hillocks of a lush new territory, the world of Cézanne’s apples, where the sense of the solidity of the apples is closely allied to their spherical geometry
Philadelphia, 1996, p. 571 [French ed., Paris, 1995].
Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, pp. 229-238, fig. 16.6-.17.
Circus Sideshow and Seurat’s Career: Circus Sideshow is one of only six major figure paintings Seurat created during his short but influential career. Born and raised in Paris as the son of a customs official, he pursued classical art training, including at least three years at the École des Beaux-Arts, and spent a year (1879–80) in military service in Brest before establishing himself as a professional artist in France’s capital city
in artificial light, and Models, an indoor, daylight scene (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
The furniture, paintings, and ceramics in this pre-Revolutionary room, on view at The Met, all belonged to Samuel Verplanck (1739–1820), a member of an influential New York City family, and his Dutch-born wife, Judith Crommelin Verplanck (d. 1803).
When Rebecca Franks of Philadelphia visited the city in 1781, she wrote to her sister
Jewish ceremonial objects—collectively referred to as Judaica—that survive from early modern Italy highlight the vibrant Jewish life from that period and region, even if Jews were generally restricted from producing these works.
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1946.
Lage, Germany, 1880–Lausanne, Switzerland, 1959
Lauder Cubist Collection), Three Musicians (1921; Philadelphia Museum of Art), and
This exhibition brings together some thirty objects from across the Museum and from local private collections to highlight the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelites, focusing on the key figures Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Pre-Raphaelites participated in an exhibition of British art that toured New York, Philadelphia
