
Journey through the Met to see a selection of the most alluring, exciting, and dramatic depictions of women, flirtation, desire, and love. Learn about the artists and their sitters, and learn of the drama that sometimes surrounded these works when they were presented in public. Guaranteed to keep your attention, these stories of love, desire, deception, tragedy, survival, and ambition transport you back to the time of John Singer Sargent, Thomas Gainsborough, Antoine Watteau, Jacque-Louis David, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Peter Paul Rubens, Johannes Vermeer, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.