Ann Nimetz

Ann Nimetz, known professionally as Ann Guité, passed away peacefully in her home in New York City on February 9, 2026 in the company of her family. She is deeply missed and mourned by her husband Matthew Nimetz, her two daughters Sophie Guité de Seynes (and husband Amaury) and Diane Guité Rothkopf (and husband Max), her four grandchildren Addie and Richie Rothkopf and Louis and Charlotte de Seynes, her siblings Arnold, Marjorie and Sara Milstein, her two stepchildren, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Ann is predeceased by her beloved mother Elaine Schiff Milstein and her father Robert Milstein.

Ann had a multi-faceted career in fine arts and was respected by curators, academics, dealers and collectors in the United States and Europe. Ann was born on November 11, 1947, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania but lived most of her early life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and never lost her regional accent and midwestern respect for hard work and solid values. Her modesty and sense of responsibility were always manifest, but never obscured her strength of character and quiet authority. After graduating from Wellesley in 1969, Ann obtained her Ph.D. at Harvard, focusing on Italian Renaissance paintings. Her thesis, devoted to the 16th century Parma-based painter Girolamo Bedoli, was published and remains a scholarly reference work on the artist. After graduating, she worked as the Assistant Curator of Prints for the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, where she also taught Italian Renaissance studies as a lecturer at Harvard College. In the following years, she held various teaching appointments across the country before moving to Greenwich, CT, where she raised her two daughters, to whom she was and remained throughout her life devoted, as they were to her.

Ann worked for many years as the Research Director for the distinguished New York-based art dealer Richard Feigen, then as the head of Christie's Old Master Paintings department in New York. In recent years she served as the curator and art advisor to one of the world's leading collecting families. Throughout her career she maintained the highest level of connoisseurship, studying works of art intensely and finding new meaning in them.

While Ann continued her professional career nearly through her last months, Ann's primary focus in recent years was to develop a profoundly beautiful relationship with her four young grandchildren. She took a deep interest in their development from their first moments after birth, and showered them with gifts, but more importantly, with love, conversation, and unflagging attentiveness.

Ann's unwavering love will forever be a source of strength to her family; and her kindness, humor, and grace will always be an inspiration. Ann will be missed deeply by all her family, her friends, her professional colleagues, as well as - and perhaps mostly - by her adoring grandchildren.