Jacob Gerard Koch

Jacob Gerard Koch

Louisa Catherine Strobel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Strobel's portrait of the Philadelphia merchant Jacob Gerard Koch (1761-1830) is posthumous, based on Rembrandt Peale's oil of about 1817 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Koch married Jane Griffith.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.