Two days later, we started at the Met Breuer, which Bev had not yet seen. I was there before, but since all the exhibits are special, everything was new to me too. We saw a collection of Paul Klee works, and a two-floor exhibit of works by Kerry James Marshall.
After lunch we went back to the Met (or Met Fifth Avenue, as it's formally called) and went through another large block of European paintings. Once again, proceeding by gallery number turned out not to be logical in this case, since the next galleries, numbers 625 to 627, started back with Italian medieval religious paintings, similar to parallel galleries 602 to 606. There were some magnificent pieces here, going all the way back to the year 1300. We then continued through the ten galleries of Dutch and Flemish art, including such well-known masters as Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, and Verneer. Every gallery was filled with treasures.
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Anthony van Dyck, Study Head
of a Young Woman (1618-20) |
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Govert Flinck, Bearded Man
with a Velvet Hat (1645) |
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| Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1660) |
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