De Montebello Exhibit at The Met
A Selection of Artworks Acquired During Director's 30-year Career
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will present 160 works acquired during the tenure of Philippe de Montebello, its retiring director, this Fall and Winter 2008.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions from October 24, 2008 to February 1, 2009 in its second-floor Tisch Galleries. Helen C. Evans, Curator of Byzantine Art in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, is organizing the monumental effort.
The exhibition will display approximately 160 works from 17 departments that The Met acquired by purchase and donation during Mr. de Montebello's more than three decades as Director. Spanning the ages globally from prehistory to modern times, the show's masterpieces will demonstrate how the museum's encyclopedic collections have expanded during the last 30 years. Notable amongst them is Madonna and Child (ca. 1300) by Duccio di Buoninsegna (act. ca. 1278-1318) and Study of a Young Woman (probably ca. 1665-67) by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675).
