After the Transition: Preserving Analog Legacy Materialat the Met

After the Transition: Preserving Analog Legacy Material

at the Met

Visual Resources Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2010

Claire Dienes, The Image Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Image Library

Lekythos, Attributed to the Amasis Painter, Greek, Attic, ca. 550–530 B.C., Terracotta, Height: 6 3/4 in. (17.15 cm)The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1931 (31.11.10)

Dining room of the Hôtel du Duc de Nemours, Paris, France, showing Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and One of Their Children by Peter Paul Rubens, as photographed by William Keighley in 1975 before being acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession number 1981.238) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William Keighley Slide Collection, Parisian Houses, Slide 26APhotograph © 1975 by William Keighley (1889-1984)

Seated Bench Figure, Mexican, Olmec, 10th–4th century B.C., Serpentine, 4 7/16 x 2 ¼ x 2 ⅛ in. (11.3 x 5.7 x 5.4 cm)The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.940)