Philippe de Montebello

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Guy Philippe Henri Lannes de Montebello (born May 16, 1936 in Paris ) is an American art historian . From 1977 to 2008 he was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Life

De Montebello was born into a French noble family. One of his forefathers is the Marshal of France and Napoléon's close friend, Jean Lannes , Duke of Montebello. He moved to the United States in the 1950s and became an American citizen in 1955. He attended the Lycée Français in New York and then studied art history at Harvard University . He received his master's degree from New York University , where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts with Charles Sterling , an expert on the French Renaissance .

He then began his museum career in the “Department of European Paintings” of the Metropolitan Museum . From 1969 to 1974 de Montebello was director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . In July 1977, the painting specialist de Montebello succeeded Thomas Hoving , who was almost forty, as director of the Metropolitan Museum. In 2001 he was admitted to the American Philosophical Society and in 2004 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

At the end of 2008, he left the service. His successor was Thomas P. Campbell . De Montebello was the longest-serving director in the museum's 140-year history. During his tenure, the exhibition area was doubled and the number of visitors increased to over five million a year. He was the head of over 3,000 museum employees.

In 2009 de Montebello became the first scholar in residence at the Museo del Prado in Madrid . He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. He is a fine arts advisor to the Abu Dhabi campus of New York University and honorary doctorates from New York University, Harvard University and Dartmouth College .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Office of the director. Miscellaneous correspondence files 1969-1973
  2. ^ Member History: Philippe de Montebello. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 3, 2019 (with biographical notes).
personal data
SURNAME De Montebello, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris