European and American art
A collection pathway for comparing materials, dates and places. The objects here are a small sample of a much wider and internally varied history.
1529–1926
Object dates, not the boundaries of a tradition.
Compare the objects below. Which materials and visual choices recur? Which differences resist a single label?
↗Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
↗Adeline Ravoux
Vincent van Gogh
↗The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue
Paul Cezanne
↗At the Concert Parisien
Georges Seurat
↗Reading
Berthe Morisot
↗Frieze of Dancers
Edgar Degas
↗After the Bath
Mary Cassatt
↗In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)
Paul Gauguin
↗Early Morning After a Storm at Sea
Winslow Homer
↗Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis
John Singer Sargent
↗The Garden
James McNeill Whistler
↗A Bearded Man Wearing a Hat
Studio of Rembrandt van Rijn
↗Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness
Rembrandt van Rijn
↗Portrait of Isabella Brant
Peter Paul Rubens
↗Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid)
Peter Paul Rubens
↗A Genoese Lady with Her Child
Anthony van Dyck
↗Frans Snyders
Anthony van Dyck
↗The Red Kerchief
Claude Monet
↗Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882
Claude Monet
↗Young Saint John
Berthe Morisot
↗Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat
Berthe Morisot
↗Paul Lafond and Alphonse Cherfils Examining a Painting
Edgar Degas
↗Estérel Village
Edgar Degas
↗Mount Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cezanne
↗The Brook
Paul Cezanne
↗Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
↗The Mender
Camille Pissarro
↗Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
↗Romaine Lacaux
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
↗Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo
Francisco de Goya
↗When Day Breaks We Will Be Off, Plate 71
Francisco de Goya
↗Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead
John Constable
↗Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow
John Constable
↗Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo
Paolo Veronese
↗Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)
Paolo Veronese
↗The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner
↗Gardener's House at Antibes
Claude Monet
↗Spring Flowers
Claude Monet
↗Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
↗The Lock at Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
↗Landscape with Trees Surrounding a Pond
John Constable
↗Saint Peter Repentant
Georges de La Tour
↗Invocation to Love
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
↗Fata Morgana
Creator not recorded
↗Portrait of a Man, Possibly Girolamo Rosati
Lorenzo Lotto
↗Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman
Frans Hals
↗The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)
Vincent van Gogh