Richter, Gisela (Marie Augusta) (1882-1972)

English-born US art historian. She was an influential curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City 1906-48. Her publications include Roman Portraits 1948, Archaic Greek Art 1949, Three Critical Periods in Greek Sculpture 1951, and A Handbook of Greek Art 1959, for many years the standard introduction to the topic.

Born in London, she emigrated to the USA in 1905 and was naturalized in 1917.