Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Soon after, negotiations were entered into which consummated in the purchase of a collection of pictures, consisting chie?y of specimens of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, but containing also important works of Italian, French, Spanish and English masters.
It became necessary to make immediate preparation for the custody and exhibition of these paintings. The Trustees took accordingly a lease for two years from May, 1871, of the building known as No. 681 Fifth Avenue, which, although too small for their purpose, was the most available habitation they could find.
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