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
Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
Frans Snyders
1614
Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair
Paul Cezanne
1888–90
Christ Carrying the Cross
Sebastiano del Piombo
1515–17
In the Sea
Arnold Böcklin
1883
The Basket of Apples
Paul Cezanne
c. 1893
Boy on a Ram
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1786–87
The Garden of Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo
Francesco Guardi
Late 1770s
Adam
Auguste Rodin
Modeled 1881, cast c. 1924
Woman at Her Toilette
Berthe Morisot
1875–80
The Crucifixion
Francisco de Zurbarán
1627
Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
1887
Interrupted Reading
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
c. 1870
Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1879
Still Life with Game Fowl
Juan Sánchez Cotán
1600/03
Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin
Spanish
1396
Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ
German
1350–75
Madame de Pastoret and Her Son
Jacques Louis David
1791–92
The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1615
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Georges Seurat
1884–86, border added 1888–89
The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh
1889
View of Delphi with a Procession
Claude Lorrain
1673
The Annunciation
Alessandro Vittoria
c. 1583
Head of an Apostle
French
c. 1210
Corpus of Christ, from the Altarpiece of the Crucifixion
Jacques de Baerze
1391–99
The Fountains
Hubert Robert
1787–88
Cupid Chastised
Bartolomeo Manfredi
1613
Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana)
Paul Gauguin
1893
At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1892–95
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
Claude Monet
1890–91
Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods
Édouard Jean Vuillard
1899
The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
Meindert Hobbema
c. 1665
Gian Lodovico Madruzzo
Giovanni Battista Moroni
1551/52
Judith
Jan Sanders van Hemessen
c. 1540
Bust of Paris
Antonio Canova
1809
The Battle between the Gods and the Giants
Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael
c. 1608
The Girl by the Window
Edvard Munch
1893
Portrait of a Man in Costume
Jean Honoré Fragonard
c. 1767–68
Old Man with a Gold Chain
Rembrandt van Rijn
1631
Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
Nicolas Poussin
1640
Saint Michael and the Devil
Spanish
1475/1500
The Nativity
Fra Bartolommeo
1504–7
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan
Eugène Delacroix
1826
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Antonio da Correggio
c. 1515
Isabella Wolff
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1803–15
Mère Grégoire
Gustave Courbet
1855, reworked 1857–59
Fish (Still Life)
Édouard Manet
1864
Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1837–38
Stoke-by-Nayland
John Constable
1836