Gift of Ernest Brummer, 1957 www.metmuseum.org Perhaps this was a hunting cup: one hand on your weapons, one on your wine (so, one handl...

www.rijksmuseum.nl (PD) http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.111262 Longtime Museum friends know that I often wish books still inc...

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, www.nga.gov (PD) This delicate portrait by Joseph Goodhue Chandler (American, 1813...

from the museum collection

Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, www.artic.edu You can barely see the mouse under this feline's golden paw, but those who know cats will...

Purchase, Judith F. and William H. Hernstadt Gift, 1985 www.metmuseum.org If you were in the market for a bird fountain sometime around...

flickr, no known copyright The holidays are over.  In January's chill, the scene at the Museum is basically this without the artisti...

In which the English cleric and wit Sydney Smith finds himself at Sir Edwin Landseer's studio chasing down a dog in the oddest way......