About the museum
The story of the Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighbourhood grew from the collection of William and Henry Walters, father and son. Henry left it to the city in 1931, and it opened as a public museum in 1934.
Its collection runs from ancient Egypt to the nineteenth century, with fine French academic and Barbizon paintings and an important group of medieval manuscripts.
The collection
The Walters' collection covers more than 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to Byzantine icons, medieval ivories and one of the finest collections of illuminated manuscripts in America.
Its paintings range from Italian Renaissance panels to nineteenth-century French works by Delacroix, Gérôme, Millet, Corot and Manet, bought by William and Henry Walters on trips to Paris.
At ArtLogia you can order 64 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 54 artists led by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jean-François Millet and Eugène Delacroix.
- paintings to order
- 64
- artists
- 54
- art movements
- 14
- years covered
- 1459–1898
The building
The museum's original building, a palazzo-style gallery of 1909 by William Delano and Chester Aldrich, stands on Mount Vernon Place beside the Washington Monument. The museum also includes the nineteenth-century Hackerman House.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
General admission is free.
