Catalina Juliana Mason, Map Sampler, 1837-1847, National Museum of American History. Stitched with multicolored silk thread on a wool ground fabric, this sampler shows a map of New York. It was made by Catalina Juliana Mason, a teenage girl from Puerto Rico who...
“Young Woman Peeling Apples” by Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1655, Dutch. On view in Gallery 964 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...
“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...
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...
Bettiscombe and its beautiful interior. Held by the V&A Museum, London. Fair Use. I used to love playing with my grandma’s dolls’ house so much that my grandpa built me one. That little blue house was my most cherished possession for years and I would...
Madame Vigée-Lebrun and her daughter, by Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun. Oil on canvas, 1789. The Louvre Museum, Paris. I learned about Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun when I was studying art history in university. She was one of the few...
