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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David Teniers the Younger - Shepherds and Sheep - fine art print
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El Greco, 1599 - View of Toledo - fine art print
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Henri Fantin-Latour, 1883 - Potted Pansies - fine art print
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Nicolás Enríquez, 1773 - The Baptism of Christ - fine art print
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Thomas de Keyser, 1625 - Portrait of a Man with a Shell - fine art print
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1765 - Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725-1792) - fine art print
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Francesco Botticini - Saint Sebastian - fine art print
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Peter Paul Rubens, 1616 - Atalanta and Meleager - fine art print
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David Teniers the Younger, 1660 - Peasants Dancing and Feasting - fine art print
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Paulus Bor, 1640 - The Disillusioned Medea - fine art print
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François Boucher, 1750 - The Interrupted Sleep - fine art print
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Hubert Robert - Aqueduct in Ruins - fine art print
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Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1870 - Tivoli - fine art print
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Alfred Stevens, 1888 - In the Studio - fine art print
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Peter Paul Rubens, 1609 - Study of Two Heads - fine art print
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Umberto Boccioni, 1905 - Self-Portrait - fine art print
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Thomas Hovenden, 1882 - The Last Moments of John Brown - fine art print
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Hubert Robert - A Colonnade in Ruins - fine art print
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Rogier van der Weyden, 15th century - The Nativity - fine art print
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Peter Paul Rubens, 1615 - The Feast of Acheloüs - fine art print
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Thomas de Keyser, 1625 - Portrait of a Woman with a Balance - fine art print
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Alfred Wahlberg, 1873 - A Day in October, near Vaxholm, Sweden - fine art print
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Edgar Degas, 1892 - Landscape - fine art print
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Pieter Snayers - Soldiers Bivouacking - fine art print
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Joos van Cleve, 1527 - The Holy Family - fine art print
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Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532 - Erasmus of Rotterdam - fine art print
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Vincent van Gogh, 1890 - Roses - fine art print
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Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy, 1624 - Man with a Celestial Globe - fine art print
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Edward Hicks, 1825 - The Falls of Niagara - fine art print
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Simon Marmion, 1473 - The Lamentation of Christ - fine art print
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John Frederick Kensett, 1872 - Sunset on the Sea - fine art print
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Paul Cézanne, 1902 - Mont Sainte-Victoire - fine art print
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Camille Corot, 1865 - The Letter - fine art print
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Willem van Leen, 18th century - Flowers in a Blue Vase - fine art print
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Camille Corot, 1860 - Mother and Child - fine art print
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Jacques de Gheyn II, 1603 - Vanitas Still Life - fine art print
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Théodore Rousseau, 1835 - An Old Chapel in a Valley - fine art print
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