The Met-Greek and Roman Art

The last area of The Met we toured was the Greek and Roman Art. 

Old, old roman coins. 

Real tapestries from a Roman room. 

It was  good visit. We had to skip several wings of The Met because we just didn't have time so we just hit the places that were of interest to us. We were there on a Friday night so although there were a lot of people, it was supposedly much less busy than on the actual weekend. 

After we visited The Met, we took a short walk in Central Park. Everyone's feet were very tired from 4 hours in the museum, so we didn't stay too long. We stayed long enough to see 2 doodles. 

We then made our way back to the subway to end our first day which was just The Met! 

The Met-Continued

We saw some Faberge eggs. They were beautiful! 

They had rooms that were replicas of rooms in France and in the United States. The United States rooms were not nearly as fancy as the rooms in France. 

Rooms from a French house

Look how plain the rooms were from the "fancy" homes in the early United Sates compared to France!  This dining table is much less ornate. 

We made our way to the American wing to see George Washington Crossing the Delaware. We knew it was big, but it was really big! 

A Stuart painting of George Washington. 

The Met-Mostly paintings

We continued through The Met. It was almost time to see what would be mostly my favorite part of the museum. I loved the paintings! 

This is the oldest known piano in the world. It dates from 1720 in Italy. 

We saw a ton of European paintings from the 1300's through the 1700's.  

We finally got to the impressionists which was what I was looking forward to. So many beautiful paintings! 

Elizabeth loved the Van Gogh paintings. We loved the wheat field one. 

There were 16 Van Gogh paintings at The Met while we were there. Apparently, it is rare to have 16 there all together at once so we visited at a good time! 

Elizabeth had been wanting to see this one by Seurat. 

I loved the ones that really showed the light. 

I could have spent MUCH more time looking at the paintings and looking at them more closely, but the kids were just not having it. We sped through pretty quickly.