Triptych with the Nativity and the Annunciation

Master of the Orléans Triptych

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Comparison of this triptych with the work of an early Renaissance French enamel painter known as the Master of the Orléans Triptych, whose artistic identity was first recognized in an enamel triptych depicting the Annunciation in the collection of the Musée HIstorique et Archéologique de l'Orléanais, Orléans, shows that the anonymous painter of the Metropolitan's acquisition tended to repeat the master's compositions, but with the kinds of generalized form and abbreviated detail that are usually associated with workshop production.

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