The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 53 include an exquisite pair of 17th-century Chinese birthday-gift portraits of an elderly couple, a hidden painting of a Rococo-inspired nude underneath Manet’s 1862 Portrait de Mlle. V. … en Espada, and a new identification of the central figures in Daumier’s The Third-Class Carriage.

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 53 include an exquisite pair of 17th-century Chinese birthday-gift portraits of an elderly couple, a hidden painting of a Rococo-inspired nude underneath Manet’s 1862 Portrait de Mlle. V. … en Espada, and a new identification of the central figures in Daumier’s The Third-Class Carriage.