Metropolitan Museum Journal: v.47

The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 47 includes essays on the Tell Basta Treasure, two Assyrian reliefs from the place of Sargon II, the Cloisters Annunciation by the Master of Charles of France, canvas matches in Vermeer, the life and work of Claude Simpol, the Bellange Album, Thomas Eakins' The Chess Players, letters from Costantino Ressman to William Riggs, collectors of arms and armor in nineteenth-century Paris, and the Duc de Dino Collection of Armor.