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Art Resource to represent The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher. Ca. 1662. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NYThe president of Art Resource, Dr. Theodore Feder, announced the addition of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA) in New York City to the wide collection of art objects whose image rights and reproductions his company represents.  The arrangement will involve over 2,000 works of art from the Museum's collection in high-resolution digital form.

 
Art Resource, also based in New York, already represents over 6,000 museums, institutions, and monuments worldwide.  The scores of iconic works from the Metropolitan Museum's collections Art Resource will license for editorial, commercial, or scholarly use include: "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."  The arrangement will encompass all of the Metropolitan's wide variety of collections 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, antiques, photography, and modern and contemporary art.

Click here to see a selection of the Museum's images now represented by Art Resource. Click here to view the original press release.

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