The sale of a Monet and the construction of small scale galleries in the end resulted within the acquisition of 220 European work (most of them plein-air sketches) from two collections. The Met simply has the best assortment of this material within the nation, and one of many three or 4 greatest on the earth. Thus the Met’s assortment, hitherto top-heavy with well-known French artists, “became uniquely various,” with “many little-known artists from France, in addition to quite a few artists from other European nations;” a lot of which are not otherwise represented in U.S. museums.
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