Thomas Fortune Ryan

Auguste Rodin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ryan (1851–1928) was a New York financier and art collector. In 1910 he gave three Rodin marbles—Pygmalion and Galatea, Cupid and Psyche, and Orpheus and Eurydice—to the Museum. In the same year he gave twenty-five thousand dollars for the purchase of additional works by the sculptor. These purchases form the nucleus of the Museum's collection of Rodin's sculpture.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art