Current Exhibitions The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

The Museum’s assortment continued to develop throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century. The 1874–76 buy of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot art—works courting from the Bronze Age to the end of the Roman period—helped to determine The Met’s status as a serious repository of classical antiquities. When the American painter John Kensett died in 1872, 38 of his canvases got here to the Museum, and in 1889, the Museum acquired two works by Édouard Manet. Even after two-thirds of the museum’s employees signed a petition in help of them, the website reported, …
