"Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy" is The Met's first exhibition centered on Orientalism. About 180 objects, from paintings by Ingres, Delacroix and Gérôme to Osman Hamdi Bey, plus photographs, architecture, arms, textiles and ceramics, trace how 19th-century colonial encounters carried Islamic art into Europe and how artists mixed observation with imagination in picturing "the East."
