RICHTER, GISELA

(1882–1972)

A British-born and Cambridgeeducated scholar who became curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a naturalized American citizen. She was an art historian in the connoisseurship tradition who concentrated her work on the Greek world, but nevertheless studied Etruscan material, including bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum. Her artistic approach made it difficult for her to detect forgeries, as was the case in the acquisition of the Etruscan warriors for the Metropolitan Museum.