Metropolitan Museum Journal

Metropolitan Museum Journal


Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 44, 2009

Item# 80-005589


The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now redesigned in a larger format with color images throughout, the Journal serves as a forum for the latest research on works of art in the Museum’s collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Contributions, by members of the Museum staff and other specialists, vary in length from monographic studies to brief notes. For anyone interested in art history in general and the Metropolitan in particular, the Journal makes for fascinating reading.

The 2009 issue of the Journal features 14 articles that illuminate and illustrate a group of objects created over more than 2,500 years, among them an ivory fan handle from the ruins of ancient Nimrud in Iraq, two Roman pillars from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, a rare crossbow made for Count Ulrich V of Württemberg in 1460, a drawing by Joseph Wright of Derby and one by Fragonard (presented side by side with a brilliant fake), a groundbreaking illustrated French anatomical treatise from 1812, a watercolor that documents American artist Thomas Moran’s travels in southern Utah in the 1870s, and a magnificent canopied bed whose owners have included a French duchess, a Scottish duke, and a New York actress.


212 pages, 240 illustrations (154 in full color). 9 1/2'' x 11''. Paper.

Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 44, December 2009

Table of Contents

An Ivory Fan Handle from Nimrud, by Paul Collins

Two Roman Pillars from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, by Elizabeth Angelicoussis

A Twelfth-Century Baptismal Font from Wellen, by Jean-Claude Ghislain

A Venetian Vignette One Hundred Years after Marco Polo, by Elfriede R. Knauer

The Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg, by Dirk H. Breiding

Joseph Wright’s Pastel Portrait of a Woman
I. A Survey of the Drawings of Joseph Wright, by Elizabeth E. Barker
II. Sources, Meaning, and Context, by Constance McPhee
III. Technique and Aesthetics, by Marjorie Shelley

A Tale of Two Sultans
I. Fragonards Real and Fake, by Perrin Stein
II. The Materials and Techniques of an Original Drawing by Fragonard and a Copy, by Marjorie Shelley

Peregrinations of a Lit à la Duchesse en Impériale by Georges Jacob, by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide

Jean-Galbert Salvage and His Anatomie du gladiateur combatant: Art and Patronage in Post- Revolutionary France, by Raymond Lifchez

Thomas Moran’s Colburn’s Butte, South Utah: Forgotten Landmark of a Lost Friendship, by Kevin J. Avery

“Handelar’s Black Choir” from Château to Mansion, by Paul F. Miller

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