Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Art Institute of Chicago · 1,807 artworks
The collection of European painting and sculpture dates from the 12th century to 1950. World-renowned holdings include Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks by Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Cézanne, and Van Gogh, as well as one of the finest collections of Surrealist art outside Paris.
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Featured Artworks
Saint George and the Dragon
Bernat Martorell
1434–35
Bust of a Youth (Saint John the Baptist)
Francesco Mochi
1630/40
Corpus of Christ, from the Altarpiece of the Crucifixion
Jacques de Baerze
1391–99
Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin
Spanish
1396
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Giovanni di Paolo
c. 1455
Adam
Auguste Rodin
Modeled 1881, cast c. 1924
The Annunciation
Alessandro Vittoria
c. 1583
Bust of Paris
Antonio Canova
1809
Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ
German
1350–75
Head of an Apostle
French
c. 1210
Processional Cross with Saint Mary Magdalene and a Blessed Hermit
Lorenzo Monaco
1392/95
Saint Michael and the Devil
Spanish
1475/1500
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Georges Seurat
1884–86, border added 1888–89
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte
1877
Woman at Her Toilette
Berthe Morisot
1875–80
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
Claude Monet
1890–91
Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1881
The Basket of Apples
Paul Cezanne
c. 1893
At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1892–95
The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet
1867
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet
1877
The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh
1889
Water Lilies
Claude Monet
1906
The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque
Paul Cezanne
c. 1885
The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
Meindert Hobbema
c. 1665
Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1879
Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1887–88
Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
Nicolas Poussin
1640
Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers
Édouard Manet
1865
Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1837–38
Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra
Gustave Moreau
1875–76
Cupid Chastised
Bartolomeo Manfredi
1613
The Crucifixion
Francisco de Zurbarán
1627
Still Life with Game Fowl
Juan Sánchez Cotán
1600/03
The Girl by the Window
Edvard Munch
1893
Beata Beatrix
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1871–72
Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair
Paul Cezanne
1888–90
Fish (Still Life)
Édouard Manet
1864
Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
Frans Snyders
1614
Amédée-David, the Comte de Pastoret
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1823–26
The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
Carl Blechen
1834
The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge)
John Philip Simpson
1827
Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond
Jacob van Ruisdael
1650–55
Boy on a Ram
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1786–87
Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods
Édouard Jean Vuillard
1899
Henri Degas and His Niece Lucie Degas (The Artist's Uncle and Cousin)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
1875–76
Stoke-by-Nayland
John Constable
1836
Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1763–65