The document discusses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, describing it as having one of the greatest art collections in the world. It was founded in 1870 and built up through private fortunes in the late 19th/early 20th century, as New York became the financial and cultural capital of North America. The museum houses art from around the world in virtually every medium. A portion of its medieval collection is housed separately at The Cloisters, a medieval-style building made of parts of European buildings and structures transported to New York.

2. ROUSSEAU, Henri
The Repast of the Lion (detail)
c. 1907
Oil on canvas, 114 x 160 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

3. ROUSSEAU, Henri
The Repast of the Lion (detail)
c. 1907
Oil on canvas, 114 x 160 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

4. ROUSSEAU, Henri
The Repast of the Lion (detail)
c. 1907
Oil on canvas, 114 x 160 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

5. ROUSSEAU, Henri
The Repast of the Lion
c. 1907
Oil on canvas, 114 x 160 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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7. GAUGUIN, Paul
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
1891
Oil on canvas, 114 x 88 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

8. GAUGUIN, Paul
Ia Orana Maria (detail)
1891
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

9. GOGH, Vincent van
The Siesta
between 1892 and 1894
Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 116.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

10. GOGH, Vincent van
The Siesta (detail)
between 1892 and 1894
Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 116.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

11. MANET, Edouard
Boating
1874
Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

12. MANET, Edouard
Boating (detail)
1874
Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

13. GOGH, Vincent van
Wheat Field with Cypresses
1889
Oil on canvas, 73 x 93.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

14. GOGH, Vincent van
Wheat Field with Cypresses (detail)
1889
Oil on canvas, 73 x 93.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

15. GOGH, Vincent van
L'Arlésienne: Madame Ginoux with
Books
November 1888, Arles
Oil on canvas, 91 x 74 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

16. GOGH, Vincent van
L'Arlésienne: Madame Ginoux with
Books (detail)
November 1888, Arles
Oil on canvas, 91 x 74 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

17. CÉZANNE, Paul
Card Players
1892-93
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

18. CÉZANNE, Paul
Card Players (detail)
1892-93
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

19. MONET, Claude
Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
1873
Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

20. MONET, Claude
Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
(detail)
1873
Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

21. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 88 x 66
cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

22. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge
(detail)
1892
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 88 x 66
cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

23. DEGAS, Edgar
The Dance Class
1874
Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

24. DEGAS, Edgar
The Dance Class (detail)
1874
Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

25. RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
By the Seashore
1883
Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

26. RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
By the Seashore (detail)
1883
Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
By the Seashore (detail)
1883
Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

28. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is the most comprehensive
collection of art in the USA and one of the greatest in the world.
It was founded in 1870 and the present building in Central Park was opened in
1880. The museum is owned by the city, but is supported mainly by private
endowment, and the history of its foundation and growth illustrates the rapid rise
of New York at the end of the 19th century as the financial and cultural capital of
North America, and the growing economic supremacy of America over Europe.
Between 1880 and 1925, at a time when the major public collections in Europe
were engaged in consolidation, relying largely on their purchase grants and
other state aid, the Metropolitan Museum was being built up out of the private
fortunes of great businessmen, who collected rather for prestige than out of
connoisseurship, but collected only first-class works of art.
It has also benefited from a number of endowed purchase grants, many of them
unconditional, which have enabled it to progress not only as a collection of
outstanding works, but as a comprehensive and representative one.

29. The museum is rich in virtually every field of the fine and applied arts from all
parts of the world and also houses one of the world's largest art libraries.
Much of the collection of medieval art is housed in a separate building called
the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, overlooking the Hudson River. Opened in
1938, the Cloisters is a Medieval-style structure, largely made up of parts of
Romanesque and Gothic buildings transported from Europe. Many of the
works it houses were collected by the American sculptor George Grey
Barnard (1863-1938), who lived in France for much of his career.