Metropolitan Museum of Art Tour: Fabergé, European Sculptures & Decorative Arts- Sold Out

Join our private tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Collection with a special focus on Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection. It’s your last chance to see the Fabergé exhibit, as it closes November 27th!

The 50,000 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 15th through the early 20th 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. 

Louisiana heiress and philanthropist Matilda Geddings Gray (1885–1971) acquired her first object by Fabergé in 1933. An artist herself, with a refined aesthetic sensibility, she was a sophisticated collector, while the name of the Russian artist-jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920) was almost unknown in the United States. Over the following years, Matilda Geddings Gray amassed one of the finest Fabergé collections in the world, and Fabergé's art has become widely known and internationally sought after.

Objects originally commissioned by and created for the Romanov family, such as the Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket—the most important Fabergé work in a U. S. collection—and three magnificent Imperial Easter Eggs, are on view.

11:00am tour.  $32 per person.  Advance reservations required by Thursday, November 17th, at which time they are considered final sale.  Attendees will meet at the group tours desk in the main lobby of the Met, located at 1000 Fifth Avenue.

 This tour is currently sold out. If you wish to be added on the wait list, please call Kirsten at 212.692.1381.