LET THEM EAT CAKE: Tour Of The Met Examines The French Revolution

Shady Ladies tours will present Let Them Eat Cake, a two-hour tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that answers the ultimate question about the French Revolution: did Marie-Antoinette really say "let them eat cake"? Beginning on Saturday, February 16 at 4:00 PM, the tour examines the French Revolution through art and artifacts.

The Met's collection includes a superb array of artworks that together tell the full story of this thrilling period: furniture that belonged to Marie Antoinette, the jewelry case of a royal mistress whose diamond necklace led to the Revolution, portraits of aristocrats who went to the guillotine and an often-overlooked painting of Napoleon's coronation. Tour-goers get to:

• Discover splendid Versailles
• Uncover the scandals of the French court
• Meet a reformer who perished on the guillotine
• See the portrait of a monarchist who survived the prisons of the Terror
• Look into the eyes of a painter who, as a judge in the Terror's courts, sent countless Frenchmen to their deaths

Let Them Eat Cake is available February 16, March 2, and March 16 at 4:00 PM, with more dates to be announced. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue and East 82nd Street. The tour groups meet 15 minutes in advance of tour time at the feet of the statue of Pharaoh Amenhemet II in the Great Hall. Tickets are $59 for adults, $49 for seniors and $39 for students and Metropolitan Museum of Art members and available at
https://www.shadyladiestours.com/let-them-eat-cake-tour/.

Shady Ladies Tours' art museum tours introduce art lovers to some of the sexiest and sauciest works of art in New York City. Designed by Professor Andrew Lear, a leading scholar on the history of sexuality and one of the foremost experts on erotic Greek and Roman art, the tours reveal the scandalous back-stories behind paintings and sculptures in major New York City museums. Tours include Nasty Women of the Metropolitan, Shady Ladies of the Metropolitan and Gay Secrets of the Metropolitan. With his groundbreaking work on the history of art and his long experience as a scholar and teacher, Professor Lear is an ideal guide to give tour-goers an entirely new (and naughty) perspective on both classic and little-known pieces of art. For more information, please visit www.shadyladiestours.com.