The Metropolitan Museum of Art
has joined a roster of more than 6,000 museums, institutions,
and monuments worldwide whose image rights and reproductions
are represented by Art Resource, it was announced today
by Theodore Feder, President of Art Resource. This new
arrangement with the Metropolitan will initially involve more
than 2,000 images from the Museum's collection."Art Resource
is extremely gratified to add to its offerings a large number
of selected works from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum
in high- resolution digital images," commented Dr. Feder
Among the scores of iconic works from
the Metropolitan Museum's collections to be offered through
Art Resource for editorial, commercial, or scholarly use are:
The Death of Socrates by Jacques- Louis David, Young
Woman with a Water Jug by Vermeer, Rembrandt's Aristotle
with a Bust of Homer, Manet's Boating, The Unicorn
Tapestries, Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the
Delaware, and Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm,
to name a few.
Each of the collections within the Museum
will be represented - from African and Oceanic art to arms
and armor, Asian art, costumes, European sculpture and decorative
arts, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Islamic art, medieval
and Renaissance art, musical instruments, drawings, prints,
antiquities, photography, and modern and contemporary art. Each
of these collections ranks in its category among the finest
in the world. The Museum's American Wing alone houses the
world's most comprehensive collection of American paintings,
sculpture, and decorative arts.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and
finest art museums. Its director, Philippe de Montebello,
has commented: "The Metropolitan Museum is a living encyclopedia
of world art from Florence to Thebes to Papua, New Guinea,
from the earliest times to the present and in every medium."
Founded in 1870 by a group of New York's leading citizens,
the Met has grown to be the most comprehensive art museum
in the Western Hemisphere, now including more than two million
works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture from every
part of the globe.
Art Resource, founded in 1968, offers
the most comprehensive fine art database available for reproduction
comprised of more than 250,000 scanned art works, accessible
via user-friendly search by subject, theme, location, or artist's
name through its website, www.artres.com or by telephone at
(212) 505-8700.
Based in New York, Art Resource's staff
of art historians are on call at all times to answer queries
or assist with image searches. It functions as the exclusive
rights and permissions bureau for more than 100 major museums
and collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern
Art, The New York Public Library, Pierpont Morgan Library
and Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, all 51 national
museums of France, including the Musée du Louvre, the
Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Picasso, Centre Georges
Pompidou, the Musée and Chateaux of Versailles, and
all 21 Berlin State Museums, among them the
Egyptian Museum and the Pergamon Museum.
 For
general information about The Metropolitan Museum of Art and
its collections, visit www.metmuseum.org or call
(212) 535- 7710.
Media contact information for Art Resource:
Theodore Feder, tfeder@artres.com or (212) 505-8700
Media contact information for
The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
communications@metmuseum.org or (212) 570-3951
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