The Met: Lehmann Wing

The Met has many storied donors, and most have been satisfied to have their gifts integrated into the museum's various collections, departments and divisions, as curators and educators saw fit. You're apt to find a Carnegie or Morgan or Rockefeller item anywhere. Not so the Lehmanns, who specified that their collection be kept together and indeed in a special building, the Lehmann Wing. I guess you can do that when you're a major benefactor and also chair of the board. Anyhow, we toured the Lehmann Wing on October 15th. There is much that is impressive, but we were taken mostly by the paintings.

Deruta, plate inscribed "he who washes the head of an ass wastes the
soap," 1550

Part of a whole room of dishes, cups, bowls, etc.

Another 16th century plate, this one inscribed to Pope Julius II,
patron of Bramante, Raphael, Michaelangelo 

Nice ceiling treatment

A Botticelli Annunciation, late 15th

Memling, Annunciation, late 15th

Petrus Christus, "What do you mean, it's not 22 carat?!" or
"Darling, maybe you could take your headphones off for a
moment," mid-15th

Nice Cranach showcase

Giovanni de Paulo, The Creation of the World and The Expulsion from
Paradise, mid-15th; two-fer

Giovanni de Pailo, Coronation of the Virgin, mid-15th

Osservansa Master, St. Anthony Abbot in the Wilderness, 
tempera on panel, c 1435; a striking piece, I thought, 
for its vintage

Rembrandt, Portrait of a Woman, 1632

Ditto...a man...1632...smaller collar

Last Supper tapestry, early 16th, Netherlandish 

Ingres, Portrait of Josephine-Eleomore-Marie-Pauline de Gallard
[I swear I am not making this up] de Bressac de Bearn; aka the
Princesse de Broglie; 1851; mostly she just went by "Jo"

Degas, View of Saint Valery-Sur-Somme, 1898

Renoir, Sea and Cliffs, 1885

Corot, Diana and Acteon, 1836