About
MAKING THE MOST OF THE MET
The Met’s celebrated European Paintings collection encompasses more than 2,500 works of art from the thirteenth through the early twentieth century.
Apart from individual masterpieces by artists as diverse as Jan van Eyck, Caravaggio, and Gustav Klimt, The Met possesses a rich display of early Italian and Northern art, along with one of the world’s greatest collections of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, including outstanding works by Frans Hals, Rembrandt, and Johannes Vermeer. The Museum's holdings of El Greco and Goya are the finest outside of Spain. Its galleries of nineteenth-century French paintings are second only to the museums of Paris, presenting in depth the art of Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and others.
The collection is vast and beautiful. This evening at Alderton House we will hear how to make the most of this exceptional collection.
About The Speaker
DR. SARAH PHELPS SMITH
Art Historian
Sarah Phelps Smith, PhD, is an art historian and critic who has taught at the University of Delaware and Swarthmore College. She writes on Victorian and Renaissance painting. She has great experience leading art tours Europe and the United States. Tonight she will present a virtual tour of the European paintings in the MET and guide our audience on how to process a lot of beauty in a limited time.