The Metropolitan Museum of Art miniatures
Subtitle: your own museum of art in miniature
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Book-of-the-Month Club
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Art objects; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Art museums; Art; History
Other titles: Arts of Flanders.; Painting in England.; Arts of ancient Rome.; Arts of the Renaissance.; Arts of ancient Greece.; Two centuries of American painting.; French impressionists.; Rembrandts in the Metropolitan.; Masters of Spanish painting.; Three American water-colorists.; Christmas story in art and legend.
Notes: Each booklet contains illustrations and text concerning art of a particular theme, artist, or style.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Contents of Album A : Arts of Flanders : The annunciation (tapestry); title: The annunciation / Van Eyck and helpers; title: The annunciation / Van Der Weyden; title: Francesco d'Este / Van Der Weyden; title: Mourning woman (gilded and painted wood); title: Mourner (Franco-Flemish); title: A monastic saint / Christus; title: Portrait of a man / Van Der Goes; title: Portrait of a man / Bouts; title: Portrait of a man (detail of tapestry); title: Portrait of a lady / Memling; title: Portrait of a lady / Quentin Massys; title: Angel of the annunciation / David; title: The annunciation / Van Cleve; title: The adoration of the Magi / Bosch; title: The Virgin and child with angels / Van Orley; title: The penitence of St. Jerome / Patinir; title: The arrival in Bethlehem / Cornelis M assys; title: The harvesters, detail / Pieter Bruegel the elder; title: The triumph of Christ over sin and death / Rubens; title: Venus and Adonis / Rubens; title: Anne of Austria / Rubens; title: Portrait of a lady / Van Dyck; title: Lucas van Uffel / Van Dyck.; title: Contents of Album C : Painting in England : Margaret Wyatt, Lady Lee / Holbein; title: Jean de Langeac (?) / unknown British painter; title: Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales / Unknown British painter; title: James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox / Van Dyck; title: Nell Gwyn / Lely; title: Scene from The Beggar's Opera / Hogarth; title: The wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox / Hogarth; title: Mrs. Barnard / Reynolds; title: Colonel George Coussmaker / Reynolds; title: Mrs. Elliot / Gainsborough; title: The wood gatherers / Gainsborough; title: Elizabeth Farren / Lawrence; title: William, Lord Robertson / Raeburn; title: English landscape / Gainsborough; title: Salisbury cathedral from the Bishop's garden / Constable; title: Roadside halt / Bonington; title: Grand canal, Venice / Turner; title: Gaming table at Devonshire house / Rowlandson; title: Angel of the revelation / Blake; title: Holy Island castle / Girtin; title: Street in Falmouth / Bone; title: The three graces / Etty; title: Lady Lilith / Rossetti - Le Chant d' Amour / Burne-Jones.; title: Contents of Album P : Arts of ancient Rome : The Roman forum in 1949; title: Portrait of an unknown man (2nd half of 1st century B.C.); title: Head of Augustus (31 B.C.-14 A.D.); title: Head of Agrippa (?) (63-12 B.C.); title: Bronze portrait of a boy (1st century A.D.); title: Head of the emperor Lucius Verus (161-169 A.D.); title: The tomb of Cecilia Metella outside Rome in 1949 (1st century B.C.); title: The empress Plotina (?) (98-117 A.D.); title: Little girl with a puppy (1st century A.D.); title: Portrait of an unknown woman (early 3rd century A.D.); title: Wall painting of Roman buildings (1), (1st century B.C.); title: Wall painting, architectural scene (2), (1st century B.C.); title: Wall painting of a satyr mask (1st century B.C.); title: Mosaic (1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.); title: Handle from a silver dish, detail (1st century A.D.); title: Glazed pottery cup (31 B.C.-14 A.D.); title: Glass jug (3rd century A.D.); title: Sardonyx cameo, Augustus (31 B.C.-14 A.D.); title: Portrait panel from a mummy, from Egypt (2nd century A.D.); title: Gravestone from Palmyra, Syria (2nd-3rd century A.D.); title: Marriage scene (?), gold glass (4th century A.D.); title: Colossal head of Constantine (306-337 A.D.); title: Silver chalice from Antioch, Syria (3rd-6th century A.D.); title: Byzantine silver dish (before 630 A.D.).; title: Contents of Album U : Arts of the renaissance : Charles V (Italian); title: Francis I (French); title: Study of the Duke of Urbino at Gubbio (Italian); title: Young man (Italian) / Bronzino; title: Negress (Italian); title: Savonarola (Italian) / Niccolo Fiorentino; title: Angel (Italian) / Matteo Civitali; title: Youth (Italian) / Andrea Della Robbia; title: Adam, detail (Italian) / Tullio Lombardo; title: Mars and Venus (Italian) / Paolo Veronese; title: Brocaded velvet (Venetian); title: Lustered Maiolica dish (Italian); title: Mermaid pendant (German or Italian); title: Genouilhac armor (French or Italian); title: Madonna and child (Italian) / Andrea Del Verrocchio; title: Madonna adoring the child, detail (Italian) / Leonardo Da Vinci; title: Cup (Italian) / attributed to Benvenuto Cellini; title: Henri II (French) / workshop of Francois Clouet; title: Amber cup (German) / Jakob Heise; title: Chalice (German); title: Dancing peasants (German) / Albrecht Dürer; title: Death on horseback (German); title: Member of the Wedigh family (German) / Holbein the younger; title: Astronomical globe (Vienna) / Gerhardt Emmoser.; title: Contents of Album V : Arts of ancient Greece : Geometric horse (8th century B.C.); title: Geometric jar (8th century B.C.); title: Sphinx (ca. 540-530 B.C.); title: Statue of a youth (ca. 615-590 B.C.); title: Painting a statue (early 4th century B.C.); title: Statuette of a horse (480-470 B.C.); title: The Parthenon and Acropolis, Athens; title: Propylaea, Athens (437-432 B.C.); title: Athena with her owl (ca. 460 B.C.); title: Diadoumenos (1st century B.C., after statue by Polykleitos); title: Wounded Amazon (Roman copy of Greek work, 5th century B.C.); title: Head of an athlete (Roman copy of Greek work, ca. 440-420 B.C.); title: Head of a woman (late 5th century B.C.); title: Pendant of bracelet (4th-3rd century B.C.); title: Black-figured jar (500-490 B.C.); title: Red-figured cup (ca. 470 B.C.); title: Toilet box (465-460 B.C.); title: Chorus of satyrs (ca. 420 B.C.); title: Statuette of comic actor (3rd-1st century B.C.); title: Gold-glass portrait (3rd century A.D.); title: Gold cup (6th-9th century A.D.).; title: Contents of Album X : Two centuries of American painting : James Badger / Badger; title: Mrs. Sylvanus Bourne / Copley; title: The return of the prodigal son / West; title: The American school / Pratt; title: George Washington / Trumbull; title: Josef de Jaudenes y Nebot / Stuart; title: Mrs. Daniel de Sassure Bacot / Morse; title: Mother and son / Sully; title: The deluge / Allston; title: The Valley of the Vaucluse / Cole; title: Lake George / Kensett; title: The Parthenon / Church; title: Fur traders descending the Missouri / Bingham; title: The Rocky Mountains / Bierstadt; title: Autumn oaks / Inness; title: Manor house at Criqueboeuf / Martin; title: Girl at a fountain / Hunt; title: Self-portrait / La Farge; title: High tide / Homer; title: Maine coast / Homer; title: Signora Gomez d'Arza / Eakins; title: Lady at the tea-table / Cassatt; title: Madame X : portrait of Madame Gautreau / Sargent; title: Arrangement in flesh color and black : Théodore Duret / Whistler.; title: Contents of Album LI : French impressionists : Baie de Fourmis /Boudin; title: The green wave / Monet; title: The beach at Sainte Adresse / Monet; title: La grenouillère / Monet; title: Vetheuil / Monet; title: Chrysanthemums / Monet; title: The cliff at Etretat / Monet; title: Rouen cathedral / Monet; title: Portrait of Dr. Leclenché / Monet; title: Côte du Jallais, Pontoise / Pissarro; title: Bather in the woods / Pissarro; title: Dead Christ with angels / Manet; title: The guitar player / Manet; title: A young man in the costume of a majo / Manet; title: Torero saluting / Manet; title: Boy with a sword / Manet; title: Woman with a parrot / Manet; title: The funeral / Manet; title: Boating / Manet; title: Mlle Valtesse de la Bigne / Manet; title: George Moore / Manet; title: Mme Charpentier and her children / Renoir; title: By the seashore / Renoir; title: Head of a brunette / Renoir.; title: Contents of Album LR : Rembrandts in the Metropolitan : Portrait of a young woman (dated 1633); title: Lady with a fan (dated 1633); title: The noble Slav (dated 1632); title: Saskia as Bellona (dated 1633); title: Old woman in an armchair (dated 1635); title: Portrait of a man holding gloves (painted about 1640); title: The gilder Herman Doomer (dated 1640); title: Man with a steel gorget (dated 1644); title: Portrait of an admiral (painted about 1643); title: Portrait of an admiral's wife (dated 1643); title: The toilet of Bathsheba (dated 1643); title: Flora (painted about 1650); title: The standard bearer (dated 1654); title: The artist's son, Titus (dated 1655); title: Portrait of a young man (dated 1658); title: Portrait of a man (painted about 1662); title: Head of Christ (painted about 1660); title: Christ with a pilgrim's staff (dated 1661); title: Portrait of the artist (dated 1660); title: Hendrickje Stoffels (dated 1660); title: Young man in a red coat (dated 1659); title: Man with a beard (dated 1665); title: Man with a magnifying glass (painted about 1663); title: Lady with a pink (painted about 1663).; title: Contents of Album LS : Masters of Spanish painting : Lion of Arlanza (Castilian); title: St. Michael triumphant (Valencian); title: The mission of the apostles (Valencian); title: View of Toledo / El Greco; title: Cardinal Don Fernando Niño de Guevara / El Greco; title: The adoration of the shepherds / El Greco; title: Portrait of a man / El Greco; title: The young Virgin / Zurbarán; title: Philip IV of Spain / Velazquez; title: Christ and the pilgrims of Emmaus / Velazquez; title: Infanta Maria Teresa / Mazo; title: Infanta Maria Teresa / Velazquez; title: The holy family with St. Catherine / Ribera; title: Don Andres de Andrade y la Col / Murillo; title: Virgin and child / Murillo; title: Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga / Goya; title: Don Sebastián Martínez / Goya; title: Don Bernardo de Yriarte / Goya; title: Doña Narcisa Barañana de Goicoechea / Goya; title: Majas on a balcony / Goya; title: Don Tiburcio Pérez / Goya; title: The bullfight / Goya; title: A city on a rock / Goya (?); title: Gertrude Stein / Picasso.; title: Contents of Album LW : Three American watercolorists : Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent : Palm tree, Nassau / Homer; title: Hurricane, Bahamas / Homer; title: A wall, Nassau / Homer; title: Nassau / Homer; title: Shore and surf, Nassau / Homer; title: The bather / Homer; title: Sloop, Bermuda / Homer; title: Flower garden and bungalow, Bermuda / Homer; title: Taking on wet provisions / Homer; title: Fishing boats, Key West / Homer; title: John Biglen in a single scull / Eakins; title: The Gross clinic / Eakins; title: Taking up the net / Eakins; title: Spinning / Eakins; title: Young girl meditating / Eakins; title: Negro boy dancing / Eakins; title: In the generalife / Sargent; title: Venetian canal / Sargent; title: The Giudecca / Sargent; title: Spanish fountain / Sargent; title: Mountain stream / Sargent; title: Tyrolese crucifix / Sargent; title: Camp at Lake O'Hara / Sargent; title: Idle sails / Sargent.; title: Contents of Album LX : The Christmas story in art and legend : The Virgin and child (Flemish) / Dieric Bouts; title: The birth of the Virgin (Italian) / Fra Carnevale (?); title: The annunciation (Flemish) / Rogier Van Der Weyden; title: The nativity (visitation detail) / workshop of Rogier; title: The birth of St. John (Florentine); title: The arrival in Bethlehem (Mary and Joseph detail, Flemish) / Cornelis Massys; title: The nativity (Bethlehem detail, Italian) / follower of Fiorenzo Di Lorenzo; title: The nativity (Italian) / Fra Angelico; title: The nativity (detail, Flemish) / Gerard David; title: The nativity (detail, Burgundian); title: Scenes from the life of the Virgin and Christ (Shepherds detail, Franco-Flemish); title: The nativity (annunciation detail, Italian) / follower of Fiorenzo Di Lorenzo; title: The nativity / Limoges; title: The adoration of the shepherds (detail, Italian) / Andrea Mantegna; title: The nativity (Sibyl detail) / workshop of Rogier; title: The nativity (dog detail) / workshop of Rogier; title: The nativity (Magi detail) / workshop of Rogier; title: Christ bearing the cross (Jerusalem detail) / Flemish painter; title: The journey of the Magi (detail, Italian) / Sassetta; title: The adoration of the Magi (Flemish) / Hieronymus Bosch; title: The slaughter of the innocents (German); title: The miracle of the palm tree (Spanish); title: Madonna and child enthroned (detail, Italian) / Raphael.