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Interested in the works of art referenced in Metropolitan Stories: A Novel? 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. I hope you’ll go see your favorites on your next visit to the Museum.
Chapter one: “WE”
Chalice of Peter of Sassoferrato
CHAPTER ONE: “WE”
Bacchanal: A Faun
Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Chapter three: “Musing”
Marble Statue Group
of the Three Graces
Chapter three: “Musing”
Piazza San Marco
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Chapter three: “Musing”
A muse standing in a niche, left arm resting in a ledge
Giulio Bonasone
Chapter three: “musing”
Calliope
Chapter three: “musing”
The Muse: History
Camille Corot
Chapter Three: “Musing”
Marble sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens
Chapter four: “Meats and Cheeses”
The Temple of Dendur
Chapter Five: “Gift Man”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
Adam
Tullio Lombardo
Chapter six: “night moves”
Katharina Merian
Chapter SIx: “night Moves”
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
chapter six: “night moves”
Reliquary of
Mary Magdalene
Chapter six: “night Moves”
Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England
(reigned 1509–47)
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
Naked Man,
Back View
Lucian Freud
Chapter Six: “Night Moves”
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino
Chapter Seven: “Mezz Girls”
Marble head of Athena
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Minerva
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Portrait of Gerard
de Lairesse
Rembrandt
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Mars
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Condesa de Altamira
and Her Daughter,
María Agustina
Goya
Chapter Twelve: “The Talent”
Beer Street
william hogarth
Chapter Twelve: “The Talent”
Animal Locomotion
Eadweard Muybridge
Chapter Fourteen:
“where we Keep the Light”
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
Francesco di Giorgio MartinI
CHAPTER ONE: “WE”
NO. 16
Mark Rothko
CHAPTER TWO: “CHAIR AS HERO”
Armchair
(Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot
CHAPTER THREE: “MUSING”
The Muse Thalia and
Infant Harlequin
Meissen Manufactory
Chapter three: “Musing”
Susan Walker Morse
(The Muse)
Samuel F. B. Morse
Chapter three: “Musing”
Dido Reine de Cartage
/ une Muse
Chapter three: “Musing”
Erato, from the series
'Twelve Muses and Goddesses'
Leon Davent
Chapter Three: “musing”
Inkstand with Apollo
and the Muses
Chapter Three: “musing”
Sleeping Muse
Constantin Brancusi
Chapter three: “musing”
Meret Oppenheim at the Printing Wheel
Man Ray
Chapter four: “Meats and CHeeses”
Estate Figure
Chapter five: “Gift Man”
Madame X
(Madame Pierre Gautreau)
John Singer Sargent
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
Fragment of a
Queen's Face
Chapter six: “night Moves”
The Demidoff Table
Lorenzo Bartolini
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Chapter six: “night Moves”
The Louis XV Room
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
No. 13
(White, Red on Yellow)
Mark Rothko
Chapter Six: “night Moves”
Beauty Revealed
Sarah Goodridge
Chapter Six: “night MOves”
Bronze chariot
inlaid with ivory
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
Hiawatha
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Chapter eight: “Lost”
Plate with David
Slaying a Lion
Chapter Eight: “lost”
The Robert Lehman Collection
Chapter Eight: “lost”
Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614–1676)
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Chapter Eight: “lost”
Christ Carrying
the Cross
El Greco
Chapter Eight: “lost”
Piazza San Marco, Venice
Luca Carlevaris
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Aquamanile in the Form
of Aristotle and Phyllis
Chapter nine: “adam”
Adam
Tullio Lombardo
Chapter twelve: “The Talent”
Marble statue of a
kouros (youth)
Chapter Fourteen:
“where we Keep the Light”
Light in the
Gubbio Studiolo
CHAPTER ONE: “WE”
Queen Mother Pendant
Mask: Iyoba
CHAPTER THREE: “MUSING”
Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
CHAPTER THREE: “musing”
The Muse of Painting
John La Farge
Chapter three: “Musing”
Clio
Léon Davent
Chapter three: “musing”
Euterpe
Léon Davent
Chapter Three: “Musing”
Polyhymnia
Chapter three: “musing”
Comedy
Pierre Charles Trémolières
Chapter four: “Meats and Cheeses”
The Temple of Dendur (Detail)
Chapter four: “Meats and Cheeses”
Estate Figure (Detail)
Chapter five : “Gift Man”
A Matador
Edouard Manet
Chapter Six: “Night moves”
Washington Crossing
the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
Great Indian Fruit Bat
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
Ugolino and His Sons
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Chapter Six: “night Moves”
Human-headed
winged lion (lamassu)
Chapter six: “night MOves”
Scherzo di Follia
Pierre-Louis Pierson
Chapter six: “night Moves”
The Temple of Dendur
Chapter six: “Night MOves”
Patio from the Castle
of Vélez Blanco
Chapter six: “Night Moves”
The Letter
Camille Corot
Chapter eight: “Lost”
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic
with a Personification of Ktisis
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
The Attarouthi
Treasure - Chalice
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Saint Jerome as Scholar
El Greco
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Chapter Eight: “Lost”
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline
de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Chapter ten: “big-boned”
The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Jacopo Tintoretto
Chapter twelve: “The Talent”
Relief showing procession
of offering bearers
Chapter twelve: “The Talent”
Motion and Rest #2
Jim Campbell
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 Sixteen: “Papercuts”
Boudoir from the
Hôtel de Crillon
Pierre-Adrien Paris