North America · United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
One of the largest art museums in the United States, with huge collections of Egyptian, Greek and Asian art and a famous collection of American paintings by Copley, Sargent and Homer. It also has one of the largest collections of Monet outside France.
History of the museum
The MFA was founded in 1870, the same year as the Met, by Boston citizens, and opened in 1876 in Copley Square. By the 1900s it had outgrown its building and moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue in 1909. It has long sent archaeologists abroad, so its Egyptian collection is one of the best outside Cairo.
Top pieces
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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit John Singer Sargent, 1882 -
The Slave Ship J. M. W. Turner, 1840 -
Paul Revere John Singleton Copley, 1768 -
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Paul Gauguin, 1897 -
La Japonaise Claude Monet, 1876
In our gallery from here (19)
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?Paul Gauguin · 1897
Saint Luke Drawing the VirginRogier van der Weyden · 1490
Dance at BougivalPierre-Auguste Renoir · 1883
The Daughters of Edward Darley BoitJohn Singer Sargent · 1882
The Slave ShipJ. M. W. Turner · 1840
Bocca BaciataDante Gabriel Rossetti · 1859
Madame Monet wearing a kimonoClaude Monet · 1876
Fray Hortensio Félix ParavicinoEl Greco · 1609
Prince Balthasar Charles With a DwarfDiego Velázquez · 1631
Athenaeum PortraitGilbert Stuart · 1796
Street SingerÉdouard Manet · 1862
Miniature Self Portrait (Anguissola, Boston)Sofonisba Anguissola · 1556
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's MouthJ. M. W. Turner · 1842
Postman Joseph RoulinVincent van Gogh · 1888
The Grand CanalClaude Monet · 1908
Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter RachelJohn Singer Sargent · 1903
Portrait of Don Luis de GóngoraDiego Velázquez · 1622
In the LogeMary Cassatt · 1878
The Fog WarningWinslow Homer · 1885