Two of the most ravishing exhibitions of the season have just opened side by side at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

These ravishing exhibitions are devoted to work from the reign of the Mughal emperors of India, and they complement each other superbly.

Ms. Simcox and Ms. Wrigglesworth were the previous owners of some of the fine antique Chinese pieces in a ravishing new exhibition at the China Institute in New York, "Weaving China's Past: The Amy S. Clague Collection of Chinese Textiles" (through June 7).

It is certainly one of the factors that makes the ravishing exhibition titled "Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory," now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, carry the force of a revelation.

Housed in the former mansion of its founder, George Hewitt Myers, this small institution is ablaze with a ravishing and important exhibition of 52 carpets produced over the course of four centuries in Anatolia, the Asian portion of Turkey.

These ravishing exhibitions are devoted to works from the reign of the Mughal emperors of India, and they complement one another superbly.

This destabilizing situation is the background to "The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting," an alternately ravishing and offputting exhibition that opens on Sunday at the National Gallery of Art here.

The good news is this ravishing exhibition of Japanese art, ranging from Neolithic pottery to knee-weakening Edo-period screens with a breadth and depth rarely seen in New York.

A ravishing exhibition devoted to works from the reign of the Mughal emperors of India.