Girls of the Met: Young Girl Bathing
“Young Girl Bathing” by Auguste Renoir, 1892. On view in Gallery 961 at time of writing. Girls of the Met is a column that looks at how the Metropolitan Museum of Art is representing girls in their collections, using items that are publicly on view, and...Girls of the Met: Stele Girl
Marble stele of a little girl, ca. 450-440 BC, Greece. On view in Gallery 156 at time of writing. Girls of the Met is a column that looks at how the Metropolitan Museum of Art is representing girls in their collections, using items that are publicly on view, and how...Degas: Removing the romance from ballet
If I were to ask you to think of a painting of a ballerina, I could almost bet money on the fact you would picture ‘Ballet at the Paris Opera’, ‘Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers’, or many of the other works by Degas. Degas’ paintings are...Unexpected Stories from Girl Portraits
Ashley and Amber discuss the portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and the unexpected questions that arise in studying girl portraiture.