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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Upper Levels

Card Players (1890–92)
Paul Cézanne departed
here from his traditional
landscapes, still lifes, and
portraits to paint this
scene of peasants
intently playing cards.

Roof garden
Sculpture Garden
These modern sculptures,
on the roof of the Modern
Art wing, are changed
annually.

. Cypresses (1889)
Vincent van Gogh painted this the
year before he died. The heavy
brushstrokes and the swirling
style mark his later work.

First floor

Second floor . Diptych (1440–44)
Flemish painter Jan van
Eyck was one of the
earliest masters of oil
painting. These scenes
of the Crucifixion and
Last Judgment show
him to be a forerunner
of realism, too.

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