Free Books from MetPublications

Did you know? MetPublications, hosted on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Website, offers several hundred books for free viewing and download online! The books include Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogs as well as exhibition books, art history books and other history publications. I decided to go through their free online section and pull out books that would be of particular interest to readers of this blog. Enjoy!

• Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1996)
• Seventeenth-Century French Ceramic Art by Jessie McNab (1987) 
• French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century by Mary L. Myers (1991)
• Gold Boxes: The Wrightsman Collection by Clare Le Corbeiller (1977)
• Fifteenth–Eighteenth Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Jacob Bean (1986)
• France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections by Pierre Rosenberg and Marc Fumaroli (1982)
• European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Highlights of the Collection (2006)
• Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections by Mary Tavener Holmes and Perrin Stein (1999)
• The Eighteenth-Century Woman by Olivier Bernier (1982)
• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton (2006)
• The Ceaseless Century: Three Hundred Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume by Richard Martin (1998)
• The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815 (1989)
• American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection by Dale T. Johnston (1990)
• American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament by Morrison H. Hecksher and Leslie Greene (1992)
• John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles by Kevin J. Avery and Peter L. Fodera (1988)