Metropolitan Museum Journal 1986 Volume 21

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. — 183 p.The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued anually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and serves as a forum for the publication of original research. Its focus is chiefly on works in the collections of the Museum and on topics related to them. Contributions, by members of the curatorial and conservation staffs and by other art historians and specialists, vary in length from monographic studies to brief notes. The wealth of the Museum's collections and the scope of these essays make the Journal essential reading for all scholars and amateurs of the fine arts.
VOLUME 21 includes a far-ranging and meticulously documented study of a number of firearms recently identified as having belonged to Louis XIII's famous cabinet d'armes. A monumental fifteenth-century sculpture of the Virgin and Child is discussed in the light of its context and provenance, confirming its attribution to Claux de Werve, court sculptor to the duke of Burgundy. The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, which was given to the Metropolitan Museum in 1982, figures in two short articles offering new information and in a group of entries on some previously uncatalogued additions to the collection. Archaeological studies, including the latest technical findings, are devoted to the bronze hut urn in the Museum, which until recently was thought to be of Etruscan origin, and to the fourth-century Vermand Treasure, with its evidence of the penetration of barbarian cultures into the late Roman Empire.The Bronze Hut Urn in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Francesco BuranelliThe Bronze Hut Urn in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Technical Report
Richard E. StoneThe Vermand Treasure: A Testimony to the Presence
of the Sarmatians in the Western Roman Empire
Deborah SchorschA Fifteenth-Century Virgin and Child Attributed to
Claux de Werve
William H. ForsythThe Cabinet d'Armes of Louis XIII: Some Firearms
and Related Problems
Leonid TarassukThe Fragments d'Opera: A Series of Beauvais Tapestries After Boucher
Edith A. StandenA Japanned Secretaire in the Linsky Collection with Decorations After Boucher and Pillement
Danielle O. Kisluk-GrosheideA Pair of Sphinxes in the Linsky Collection Reattributed
Clare Le CorbeillerThe Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Addenda to the Catalogue
Katharine Baetjer, Guy C. Bauman, James David Draper, Clare Le Corbeiller, James Parker, Mary Sprinson Dejesus