a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;

* P. Remacle's collection – Greek with French translation

The focus is put on the classical modernist art with the collection of Kurt Schwitters, works of German expressionism, and French cubism, the cabinet of abstracts, the graphics and the department of photography and media.

In an 1818 collection of his writings, the French liberal theorist, Benjamin Constant, argued against the recently introduced idea of " property which has been called intellectual.

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

John would become a " connoisseur of jewels ", building up a large collection, and became famous for his opulent clothes and also, according to French chroniclers, for his fondness for bad wine.

The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20, 000 pieces.

The comte d ' Angiviller broadened the collection and in 1776 proposed conversion of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre – which contained maps – into the " French Museum ".

The collection was part of the Department of Antiquities but was given autonomy in 1871 under Louis Courajod, a director who organized a wider representation of French works.

The Grand Louvre project separated the department into two exhibition spaces ; the French collection is displayed in the Richelieu wing, and foreign works in the Denon wing.

A library ( from French " librairie "; Latin " liber " = book ) is an organized collection of resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

The project is currently available in four languages: Hebrew ( the largest collection ), English, French and Portuguese.

His discovery inspired other French, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese treasure hunters and explorers who also took their toll on the collection.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

Since Picasso left no will, his death duties ( estate tax ) to the French state were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection.

The first possible historical reference to the vase is in a 1601 letter from the French scholar Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the painter Peter Paul Rubens, where it is recorded as in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in Italy.

It was part of a collection of ancient Egyptian monuments captured from the French expedition, including a sarcophagus of Nectanebo II ( EA 10 ), the statue of a high priest of Amun ( EA 81 ) and a large granite fist ( EA 9 ).

The stamp collection assembled by French / Austrian aristocrat Philipp von Ferrary ( 1850 – 1917 ) at the beginning of the 20th century is widely considered the most complete stamp collection ever formed ( or likely to be formed ).

However, as Ferrary was an Austrian citizen, the collection was broken up and sold by the French government after the First World War, as war reparations.

vous dirai-je Maman ?, as published in the early 20th century in a collection of French songs by Jean Gilleguin.

The tale was quite common during the medieval era, appearing in Barlaam and Josaphat ( written in the 8th century ), an exemplum of Jacques de Vitry ( 13th century ) and Cento Novelle Antiche ( also 13th century ), The Seven Wise Masters, and Italian collection of fables called Fiori di Virtu ( 14th century ), Odo of Shirton's " De heremita iuvene " ( 12th century ), and a French fabliau ( 13th century ).

* French writer Charles Perrault publishes a collection of favourite fairy tales, including Red Riding Hood and The Sleeping Beauty.

The story of Turandot was taken from a Persian collection of stories called The Book of One Thousand and One Days ( 1722 French translation Les Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix — not to be confused with its sister work The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ), where the character of " Turandokht " as a cold princess was found.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

It is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces ( the largest in the world ) by such painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

The permanent collection of the foundation is based primarily on nine private collections: Solomon R. Guggenheim ’ s collection of non-objective paintings ; Karl Nierendorf ’ s collection of German expressionism and early abstract expressionism ; Katherine S. Dreier's gift of paintings and sculptures ; Peggy Guggenheim ’ s collection, concentrating on abstraction and surrealism ; Justin K. and Hilde Thannhauser ’ s collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern masterpieces ; part of Hilla von Rebay's collection ; Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's holdings of American minimalist, post-minimalist, environmental and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s ; a collection of photographs and mixed media from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ; and the Bohen Foundation's collection of film, video, photography and new media.

It was founded in 1949 and comprised the second collection in France of works from Rodin and the second collection of impressionist paintings of France.

The first institution to move in was the Courtauld Institute of Art, including the Courtauld Gallery, which has an important collection of old master and impressionist paintings.

* Musée Marmottan Monet, a museum specialising in impressionist works, including a significant collection of paintings by Claude Monet and works by Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Featuring a permanent collection of nearly 3, 000 works by American and European impressionist and modern artists, the Phillips is recognized for both its art and its intimate atmosphere.

Freer chose to begin an art collection, and by 1886 began collecting American masters, including a number of impressionist painters.

Also in 2001, Swiss collector Gérard Corboud gave his comprehensive impressionist and postimpressionist collection as a permanent loan to the museum, which added “ Fondation Corboud ” to its name.

The collection contains a large selection of 19th-century French art including more than 140 bronze animal sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye and several paintings by Barbizon artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and impressionist Camille Pissarro.

Historic features along the trail include Old Newgate Prison museum and copper mine in East Granby ; Heublein Tower on Talcott Mountain with expansive view of four states ; the Hill-Stead museum in Farmington, Connecticut, notable for its French impressionist painting collection and gardens ; and Hubbard Park of the Hanging Hills of Meriden, designed with the help of famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead and crowned with a small observation tower known as Castle Craig.

The entire Sloan collection will be made available at the center to all serious art students and historians.

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives.

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.

The museum's collection of Islamic art, including archaeological material, numbers about 40, 000 objects, one of the largest of its kind in the world.

File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )

* The most comprehensive collection of Japanese pre-20th century art in the Western world

The city comprises a large number of theatres and many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the world's oldest art collection accessible to the public.

In 2012, she debuted an art exhibit featuring a collection of her own paintings and drawings titled " And She's Not Even Pretty ".

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

The Walter O. Evans collection of African American art.

With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation.

The interior of the Pantheon ( Rome ) by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, ordered by and belonging to the art collection of Algarotti.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

Gertrude Whitney decided to put the time and money into the museum after the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art turned down her offer to contribute her twenty-five-year collection of modern art works.

Helene Kröller-Müller, ( February 11, 1869 – December 14, 1939 ) was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection.

As she was one of the wealthiest women in the Netherlands at the time, Bremmer recommended that she form an art collection.

From 1913 onwards parts of her collection were open to the public ; until the mid 1930s her exhibition hall in The Hague was one of the very rare places where one could see more than a few works of modern art.

The museum is named after August Kestner and exhibits 6, 000 years of applied art in four areas: Ancient cultures, ancient Egypt, applied art and a valuable collection of historic coins.