The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art or The MET is located in New York City. It was founded in 1870 and has a collection of more than two million artworks that are exhibited on the museum's four main galleries. There are approximately 500,000 cataloged items in storage at any given time. Some of these collections span back from ancient Greek and Roman period through Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, eighteenth-century France, nineteenth-century German and The MET's own American art collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has collections from around the world with artworks that are created by artists from every continent. Some of these collections include Japanese woodcuts, French impressionist painting, American modernism. The Metropolitan Museum's art collection has been divided into 20 separate departments that include African, Islamic, Japanese and Korean, Oceanic aboriginal and Native American Art; Arms and Armor; Applied Arts; European Sculpture and Decorative Arts from 1300 to 1800; Egyptian Art; European Painting (1300–1800); European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century (1700–1800); European Painting (11th–18th Century) The MET Museum's Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo Art; Modern Art; Medieval Art; Musical Instruments; Paintings Conservation. The MET has been publishing their art collection for over a hundred years now. They now have more than 175 books on art, architecture and cultural history. These include publications with catalogues of the Fine Arts Department; Islamic Art department and Arms and Armor departments. Some publications are books on the history of The MET and its building, exhibitions catalogs and scholarly volumes. The Metropolitan Museum was initially established through a public-private partnership. Nowadays, it is privately funded but offers free entrance to all visitors.

Caspar David Friedrich, 1825 - Two Men Contemplating the Moon - fine art print

Jean Honoré Fragonard, 1760 - The Stolen Kiss - fine art print

Vincent van Gogh, 1888 - Shoes - fine art print

Paul Cézanne, 1890 - The Card Players - fine art print

Théodore Gericault, 1818 - Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct - fine art print

Pierre Auguste Cot, 1880 - The Storm - fine art print

Hubert Robert - The Bathing Pool - fine art print

Rosa Bonheur, 1852 - The Horse Fair - fine art print

Vincent van Gogh, 1889 - Wheat Field with Cypresses - fine art print

Jacques Louis David, 1787 - The Death of Socrates - fine art print

Titian, 1550 - Venus and Adonis - fine art print

Winslow Homer, 1899 - The Gulf Stream - fine art print

Winslow Homer, 1895 - Northeaster - fine art print

Gustave Courbet, 1865 - Jo, the Beautiful Irish - fine art print

Chester, 1827 - Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge - fine art print

Fra Carnevale, 1467 - The Birth of the Virgin - fine art print

William Merritt Chase, 1895 - Bessie Potter - fine art print

Charles Joseph Natoire, 1740 - The Rebuke of Adam and Eve - fine art print

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1540 - Portrait of a Young Woman - fine art print

Angelica Kauffmann, 1782 - Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso - fine art print

Thomas Eakins, 1900 - The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton - fine art print

Hieronymus Bosch - Christ's Descent into Hell - fine art print

Auguste Renoir, 1892 - Two Young Girls at the Piano - fine art print

Jan Gossart - Virgin and Child - fine art print

Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1873 - Springtime - fine art print

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757 - Modern Rome - fine art print

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop, 1520 - Saint Maurice - fine art print

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1880 - The Bridge - fine art print

Frederic Edwin Church, 1859 - Heart of the Andes - fine art print

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565 - The Harvesters - fine art print

Unknown, 1800 - Hunting Scene - fine art print

Angelica Kauffmann, 1750 - The Victory of Eros - fine art print

Claude Lorrain, 1639 - Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna - fine art print

Vincent van Gogh, 1888 - Oleanders - fine art print

Bonifacio de' Pitati - Legend of the infant Servius - fine art print

Emanuel Leutze, 1851 - Washington Crossing the Delaware - fine art print

French Painter, 1770 - Basket of flowers with garlands - fine art print

Jan van Eyck, 1440 - The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment - fine art print

Paul Gauguin, 1892 - The Siesta - fine art print

Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1880 - The Storm - fine art print

Thomas Sully, 1838 - Queen Victoria - fine art print
