The Robert Lehman Collection
One of the most distinguished privately assembled art collections in the United States, Robert Lehman's bequest to The Met—a collection of extraordinary quality and breadth acquired over the course of 60 years—is a remarkable example of 20th-century American collecting. Spanning 700 years of western European art, from the 14th to the 20th centuries, the 2,600 works include paintings, drawings, manuscript illumination, sculpture, glass, textiles, antique frames, maiolica, enamels, and precious jeweled objects.
