Imperial Highlights & Old Favorites at the Met (Part 2)

Madame X (Countess Anna-Elizabeth de Noailles),
ca. 1907, marble, Auguste Rodin

At long last, we finally got to see the newly designed Layered Narratives: The Northern Renaissance Gallery and British Vision, 1700–1900: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Friday afternoon. Highlighting the museum’s extraordinary array of vivid and inspiring masterpieces from the Holy Roman and British empires, it turned out to be one of the more memorable visits we’ve had in a long time.

As an added bonus, we also got to see the Museum’s renowned collection of François Auguste René Rodin sculptures and a new rotation of works in the Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Barbizon school galleries, which boasts the largest group of paintings (25 as of this writing) by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot after the French national collections in Paris.

See part 1

Highlights from the Rodin, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Barbizon School Galleries

(L) Orpheus and Eurydice, modeled ca. 1887, carved 1893, marble, Auguste Rodin. (R) The Thinker, modeled ca. 1880, cast ca. 1910, bronze, Auguste Rodin

Eternal Spring, modeled ca. 1881, carved 1907, marble, Auguste Rodin

(L) Adam, modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910, bronze, Auguste Rodin. (R) Eve, modeled 1881, cast 1910, bronze, Auguste Rodin

(L) Pygmalion and Galatea, ca. 1890, oil on canvas, Jean-Léon Gérôme.
(R) Graziella, 1879, oil on canvas, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre

The Forest in Winter at Sunset, ca. 1846-67, oil on canvas, Théodore Rousseau

Highlights from the Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Gallery

The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom"),
1843 and 1857, oil on canvas, Camille Corot

Bacchante by the Sea, 1865, oil on wood, Camille Corot

Bacchante in a Landscape, 1865-70, oil on canvas, Camille Corot

(L) The Letter, ca. 1865, oil on wood, Camille Corot. (R) A Woman
Reading, 1869 and 1879, oil on canvas, Camille Corot

Boatman among the Reeds, ca. 1865, oil on canvas, Camille Corot

First Friday of Lent

Portable Stations of the Cross and The Way of the
Cross as composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori

Afterward, being the first Friday of Lent and the Feast of the Crown of Thorns, we prayed the Stations of the Cross. Famished, we returned to Brooklyn and broke our Lenten fast at Amunì, sans meat, dairy and eggs.

Caponata

Pasta al tonno

Marinated and grilled swordfish (pesce spada) with tomato salad