The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum’s collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 47 includes essays on the Tell Basta Treausure, Two Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Sargon II,  the Cloisters Annunciation by the Master of Charles of France, Canvas Matches in Vermeer: a Case Study in the Computer Analysis of Fabric Supports, New Findings on the Life and Work of Claude Simpol (1666–ca. 1710), The Bellangé Album and New Discoveries in French Nineteenth-Century Decorative Arts, Thomas Eakins’s The Chess Players Replayed, “Mon cher ami et frère d’armes”: Letters from Costantino Ressman to William Riggs, Collectors of Arms and Armor in Nineteenth-Century Paris, and Armor for America: The Duc de Dino Collection.