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.
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Eugène Boudin, 1864 - On the Beach, Dieppe - fine art print
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Johan Mengels Culverhouse, 1875 - Skating on the Wissahickon - fine art print
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Gilbert Stuart, 1800 - John R. Murray - fine art print
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Édouard Manet, 1859 - Copy after Delacroix'sBark of Dante - fine art print
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Gustave Courbet, 1873 - The Hidden Brook - fine art print
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Henry Inman, 1829 - The Young Fisherman - fine art print
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William Morris Hunt, 1852 - Girl at the Fountain - fine art print
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Edgar Degas, 1896 - View of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme - fine art print
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Eugène Boudin, 1867 - Village by a River - fine art print
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1865 - An Egyptian in a Doorway - fine art print
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Ammi Phillips, 1818 - Philip Slade - fine art print
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Thomas Sully, 1821 - Portrait of the Artist - fine art print
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Camille Pissarro, 1895 - Bather in the Woods - fine art print
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John Frederick Kensett, 1872 - A Foggy Sky - fine art print
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Samuel Lovett Waldo, 1819 - Old Pat, the Independent Beggar - fine art print
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John Wesley Jarvis, 1820 - Augustus Washington Clason - fine art print
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Nicholas Biddle Kittell, 1845 - Charles Henry Augustus Carter - fine art print
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James McNeill Whistler, 1870 - Cremorne Gardens, No. 2 - fine art print
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John Woodhouse Audubon, 1846 - Hudson's Bay Lemming - fine art print
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John Carlin, 1857 - After a Long Cruise - fine art print
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Eastman Johnson, 1870 - The Hatch Family - fine art print
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Winslow Homer, 1866 - Prisoners from the Front - fine art print
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Robert Swain Gifford, 1885 - Near the Coast - fine art print
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Joshua Johnson, 1805 - Edward and Sarah Rutter - fine art print
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Daniel Huntington, 1878 - Mrs. Sylvester Dering - fine art print
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Louis Lang, 1868 - Women's Art Class - fine art print
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William Oliver Stone, 1868 - Mary Cadwalader Rawle - fine art print
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Thomas Sully, 1821 - William Gwynn - fine art print
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Alfred Stevens, 1874 - After the Ball - fine art print
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Pamela Hill, 1840 - Amos Binney - fine art print
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Thomas Sully, 1830 - Mrs. Huges - fine art print
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Martin Johnson Heade, 1859 - Approaching Thunder Storm - fine art print
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Daniel Huntington, 1844 - Mary Inman - fine art print
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George Hitchcock, 1895 - Vespers - fine art print
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Francis William Edmonds, 1854 - Taking the Census - fine art print
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Gustave Courbet, 1862 - The Source - fine art print
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John Hoppner, 1805 - Portrait of Lady Hester King (died 1873) - fine art print
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Unknown, 1800 - Father of his Country - fine art print
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Eugène Boudin, 1865 - On the Beach, Sunset - fine art print
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