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Tiffany to Sargent: Highlights of the Gilded Age at the Met Museum Private Tour

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Tiffany to Sargent: Highlights of the Gilded Age at the Met Museum

Join Carl Raymond, host of The Gilded Gentleman history podcast, for this unique and wide-ranging look at art inside The Met Museum that was created during America's famous Gilded Age. Carl will guide you through the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and weave together a story of the styles, the artists, the architects, the sculptors and the painters that gave the Gilded Age its look.  

This tour will combine masterpieces of the period with some of the biggest names together with lesser-known yet essential works by nearly forgotten artists. Artists discussed will include Louis Comfort Tiffany, John LaFarge, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Thomas Cole, Eastman Johnson, Mary Cassatt,  Frederick Remington, Winslow Homer, James McNeil Whistler, and Childe Hassam among others. 

What You'll Discover

Highlights of the Private Tiffany to Sargent: Highlights of the Gilded Age at the Met Museum Tour

  • How the Gilded Age fortunes of Fifth Avenue ended up on the walls of the Met
  • Tiffany’s glass, Sargent’s portraits, and the American artists who defined an era of excess
  • The society figures who sat for the paintings — and the reputations they were buying
  • What a single portrait revealed about money, marriage, and status in old New York
  • The collectors and robber barons whose taste still shapes the museum today

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Duration
~2 hours
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Group Size
Up to 8 base
+$50/person above · all-in pricing
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Lead Time
1–2 weeks recommended
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