Metropolitan Museum of Art Part II

Visiting Egypt and Its Monuments

"The West Wall'

"West wall of the chapel of Kaemsenu"
Dynasty 5, reign of Niuserre (ca. 2420-2389 B.C.)
Limestone
Excavated at Saqqara
Gifts of Edward S. Harkness, 1926 (26.9.1;statue 26.9.3)


(The above two photographs)
"Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet"
Dynasty 11, reign of Mentuhotep II (ca. 2051-2010 B.C.)
Painted limestone
From Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, temple of Mentuhotep II, pit II
Egypt Exploration fund excavations, 1906-07
Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1907 (07.230.1a,b)












The Beauty of Marble

Attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
"Young Archer"
Marble
Italian (Florence), ca. 1491-92
Lent by the Frence Republic Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)
"The Angel of Death and the Sculptor" from the Milmore Memorial 1889-93;this carving, 1921-26
Marble
Gift of a group of Museum trustees 1926 (26.120)

William Henry Rinehart (1825-1875)
"Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana, 1870;this version, 1874
Marble
Rogers Fund, 1905 (05.12)


"Temperance"
Marble
Giovanni Caccini (1556-1612)
Italian (Florence), 1578-84


Randolph Rogers (1825-1892)
"Ruth Gleaming"
1850; this carving, 1855 or 1856
Marble
Gift of James Douglas, 1899
99.7.1

(In the background)
"The Libyan Sibyl"
1860; this carving, 1861
Marble
Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation, in memory of Diane Wolf, 1979
1979.266