METROPOLITAN STORIES — FEATURED ART
Interested in the works of art referenced in Metropolitan Stories? They’re all here, labeled by chapter. You can click on any image to link to the Met’s website for more information and gallery locations.
Chapter One: We
Chalice of Peter of Sassoferrato
Chapter One: We
No. 16
Mark Rothko
Chapter One: We
Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba
Chapter Two: Chair as Hero
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot.
Chapter One: We
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro Bernini
Chapter Three: Musing
Self-Portrait
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Chapter Three: Musing
Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces
Chapter Three: Musing
The Muse Thalia and Infant Harlequin
Meissen Manufactory
Chapter Three: Musing
The Muse of Painting
Jean La Farge
Chapter Three: Musing
Piazza San Marco
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Chapter Three: Musing
Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)
Samuel F. B. Morse.
Chapter Three: Musing
Clio
Léon Davent
Chapter Three: Musing
A muse standing in a niche, left arm resting in a ledge
Giulio Bonasone
Chapter Three: Musing
Dido Reine de Cartage / une Muse.
Chapter Three: Musing
Calliope
Chapter Three: Musing
Erato, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"
Léon Davent
Chapter Three: Musing
Polyhymnia
Chapter Three: Musing
Euterpe, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"
Léon Davent
Chapter Three: Musing
Inkstand with Apollo and the Muses
Chapter Three: Musing
The Muse: History
Camille Corot
Chapter Three: Musing
Sleeping Muse
Constantin Brancusi
Chapter Three: Musing
Comedy
Pierre Charles Trémolières
Chapter Three: Musing
Marble sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens
Chapter Three: Musing
Meret Oppenheim at the Printing Wheel
Man Ray
Chapter Four: Meats and Cheeses
The Temple of Dendur
Chapter Four: Meats and Cheeses
The Temple of Dendur (detail)
Chapter Four: Meats and Cheeses
Estate Figure
Chapter Four: Meats and Cheeses
Estate Figure (detail)
Chapter Five: Gift Man
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Chapter Five: Gift Man
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)
John Singer Sargent
Chapter Five: Gift Man
A Matador
Edouard Manet
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Fragment of a Queen's Face
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Adam
Tullio Lombardo
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Great Indian Fruit Bat
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Katharina Merian
Chapter Six: Night Moves
The Demidoff Table
Lorenzo Bartolini
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Ugolino and His Sons
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Chapter Six: Night Moves
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
Chapter Six: Night Moves
The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Reliquary of Mary Magdalene
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Human-headed winged lion (lamassu)
Chapter Six: Night Moves
The Louis XV Room
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Scherzo di Follia
Pierre-Louis Pierson
Chapter Six: Night Moves
No. 13 (White, Red on Yellow)
Mark Rothko
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Naked Man, Back View
Lucian Freud
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Beauty Revealed
Sarah Goodridge
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)
Chapter Six: Night Moves
The Temple of Dendur
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Chapter Six: Night Moves
Hiawatha
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Chapter Six: Night Moves
The Letter
Camille Corot
Chapter Seven: Mezz Girls
Marble head of Athena
Chapter Eight: Lost
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Chapter Eight: Lost
Choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid
Chapter Eight: Lost
Plate with David Slaying a Lion
Chapter Eight: Lost
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Chapter Eight: Lost
Minerva
Chapter Eight: Lost
The Robert Lehman Collection
Chapter Eight: Lost
Saint Jerome as Scholar
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
Chapter Eight: Lost
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Chapter Eight: Lost
Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614–1676)
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Chapter Eight: Lost
Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Chapter Eight: Lost
Christ Carrying the Cross
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
Chapter Eight: Lost
Mars
Chapter Eight: Lost
Piazza San Marco, Venice
Luca Carlevaris
Chapter Eight: Lost
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Chapter Eight: Lost
Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
Chapter Eight: Lost
Aquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis
Chapter Nine: Adam
Adam
Tullio Lombardo
Chapter Ten: Big Boned
The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Chapter Twelve: The Talent
Beer Street
William Hogarth
Chapter Twelve: The Talent
Relief showing procession of offering bearers
Chapter Twelve: The Talent
Animal Locomotion
Eadweard Muybridge
Chapter Twelve: The Talent
Motion and Rest #2
Jim Campbell
Chapter Twelve: The Talent
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)
Chapter Twelve: The Talent
The Veteran in a New Field
Winslow Homer
Chapter Fourteen: Where We Keep the Light
The Duke and Duchess of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
Piero della Francesca
Chapter Fourteen: Where We Keep the Light
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
Chapter Fourteen: Where We Keep the Light
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
Chapter Sixteen: Papercuts
Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon
Pierre-Adrien Paris