The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, one of the largest art museums in the United States, was founded in 1870. In terms of the size of its collection, it ranks second among museums in the Americas; it houses more than a million exhibits: outstanding examples of sculpture from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, medieval art of China, India and Asian countries. The collection of Japanese ceramics is unparalleled outside Japan. The museum owns a rich collection of European and American paintings and decorative arts. Here is the most extensive collection of paintings by Claude Monet outside of Paris. Cover: D. S. Sargent. "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boyt." Fragment