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  2. Orleans Collection - Wikipedia

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    The Orleans Collection was a very important collection of over 500 paintings formed by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, mostly acquired between about 1700 and his death in 1723. [1] Apart from the great royal-become-national collections of Europe it is arguably the greatest private collection of Western art, especially Italian, ever assembled ...

  3. Private collection - Wikipedia

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    Private collection. A private collection is a privately owned collection of works (usually artworks) or valuable items. In a museum or art gallery context, the term signifies that a certain work is not owned by that institution, but is on loan from an individual or organization, either for temporary exhibition or for the long term.

  4. Huntington Library - Wikipedia

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    The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, [ a] is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th ...

  5. The broke art collector: How (and when) to start collecting

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    This is the first in a series of posts about why and how to collect art -- even when you don't have a lot of extra money.I don't know if this counts, but the first piece of "art" I "collected" was ...

  6. Collecting - Wikipedia

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    The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining items that are of interest to an individual collector. Collections differ in a wide variety of respects, most obviously in the nature and scope of the objects contained, but also in purpose, presentation, and so forth.

  7. Barnes Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture. Originally in Merion, the art collection moved in 2012 to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The arboretum of the Barnes Foundation remains in Merion, where it has been proposed that ...

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