Alfred Stevens's La Psyché recently entered the Museum’s collection. Using the studio as its setting, the painting exemplifies the style that made Stevens famous.
In Depth: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
This selection of over sixty European paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, and decorative objects, dating from around 1480 to around 1605, includes memorable images and riveting portraits of Africans, some of whose identities are known and others who remain anonymous.