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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Adrien Dauzats, 1839 - A Cairo Bazaar - fine art print
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Jean-François Millet, 1856 - Woman with a Rake - fine art print
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Ammi Phillips, 1835 - Mrs. Mayer and Daughter - fine art print
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Camille Corot, 1871 - A Woman Gathering Faggots at Ville-dAvray - fine art print
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Paul Cézanne, 1875 - The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene) - fine art print
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Shepard Alonzo Mount, 1830 - Catherine Brooks Hall - fine art print
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Alfred Sisley, 1878 - Allée of Chestnut Trees - fine art print
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Ernest Meissonier, 1863 - The Card Players - fine art print
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George Inness, 1865 - Peace and Plenty - fine art print
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George Chinnery, 1843 - Houqua - fine art print
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Camille Corot, 1865 - The Banks of the Seine at Conflans - fine art print
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Eugène Delacroix, 1853 - Christ Asleep during the Tempest - fine art print
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Theodore E. Pine, 1858 - Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. MacFarlan - fine art print
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Jean-Georges Vibert, 1874 - The Reprimand - fine art print
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Rosa Bonheur, 1856 - A Sleuth Hound Lighter - fine art print
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George W. Twibill Jr., 1833 - The Family of John Q. Aymar - fine art print
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Camille Corot, 1860 - Reverie - fine art print
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Théodore Rousseau, 1855 - The Pond (Sea) - fine art print
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Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1846 - The Flower Girl - fine art print
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Charles Bargue, 1875 - A Bashi-Bazouk - fine art print
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Robert S. Duncanson, 1852 - Landscape with Shepherd - fine art print
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Martin Johnson Heade, 1876 - Newburyport Meadows - fine art print
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Édouard Manet, 1882 - Strawberries - fine art print
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William Bouguereau, 1872 - The Proposal - fine art print
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Théodore Gericault, 1820 - Horsewoman - fine art print
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Unknown, 1850 - Marine - fine art print
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Eugène Delacroix, 1862 - Ovid among the Scythians - fine art print
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Eugène Delacroix, 1848 - Basket of Flowers - fine art print
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Edward Moran, 1871 - Marine - fine art print
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William Merritt Chase, 1896 - For the Little One - fine art print
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Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898 - King Lear, Act I, Scene I - fine art print
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John Neagle, 1840 - John Walsh - fine art print
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John A. Woodside, 1825 - Still Life: Peaches and Grapes - fine art print
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Joseph H. Hidley, 1870 - View of Poestenkill, New York - fine art print
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Thomas Sully, 1813 - Musidora - fine art print
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William P. Chappel, 1870 - Adult Funeral Procession - fine art print
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Eugène Delacroix, 1843 - The Ghost on the Terrace - fine art print
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Eastman Johnson, 1882 - Lewis Einstein - fine art print
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Asher Brown Durand, 1854 - River Scene - fine art print
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Enoch Wood Perry, 1872 - Talking It Over - fine art print
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David Johnson, 1886 - Bayside, New Rochelle, New York - fine art print
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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1837 - The Experts - fine art print
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