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Introduction

European Galleries

The European galleries feature works from the 11th to the 20th centuries. Across a sequence of 11 galleries (which include the David and Peggy Rockefeller Gallery, the Creamer Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, and the Murray Skylight Gallery), objects are displayed to reflect the issues, materials, and processes that shaped European artistic production. Highlights include tapestries and textiles; furniture, ceramics, jewelry, and other decorative arts; drawings and prints; sculpture; and paintings by Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Morisot, Picasso, and Van Gogh.

Selected Objects

Spanish, Spain

Crucifixion, ca. 1490

French

Pyx, 1200s

Dutch, Groningen, Netherlands

Communion Beaker, ca. 1660

Indian, India

Qutub Minar, Delhi, 1800s

Indian, India

Bara Imambara, Lucknow, 1800s

Studio of Paolo Veronese

Wisdom and Strength, ca. 1565-1580

Possibly Netherlandish

Madonna and Child with Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine, ca. 1525

Artist of Fontainebleau School

Charity, ca. 1550

Flemish French

Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus, ca. 1545

Michele Pace del Campidoglio

Still Life with Figure, ca. 1660

Joshua Reynolds

A Caricature Group: Sir Charles Turner, Mr. Cook, Mr. John Woodyeare, and Rev. Dr. William Drake, ca. 1751

Francesco Tironi

View of the Grand Canal, Venice, with Churches of the Scalzi and Santa Lucia, 1700s

Claude Monet

The Seine at Giverny, 1885

Pablo Picasso

Seated Woman with a Book (Femme assise au livre), ca. 1910

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Birthday Party, ca. 1797

Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Virgin of the Annunciation, ca. 1474

Jeanne Deny

Plate 3, 1770

Italian, Rome

Micromosaic of St. Peter’s, mid-1800s

Tilman Riemenschneider

Pietà, ca. 1515-1525

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Portrait of Cesárea Goicoechea y Galarza, 1806

Jan Gossaert

Adam and Eve, ca. 1525

Johann Joachim Kändler, designer

Turkish Woman with Basket, late 1700s

Johann Joachim Kändler, designer

Turkish Man with Basket, late 1700s

Jeanne Vergouwen

Portrait of Andries Rademaker, Notary, Displaying a Statuette, 1656

Attributed to Thomas Couture

Romans of the Decadence, ca. 1847

Burgundian (Migration period) French, Burgundy region

Saint Peter, ca. 1106-1112

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Portrait of Gerónima Goicoechea y Galarza, 1805

Italian, Gubbio Italy

Bella Donna Plate, 1500-1550

Hubert Robert

Architectural Fantasy, ca. 1802-1808

Italian, Venice Probably Italy

Casket, ca. 1500

Indian Parsee, India

Child's Jacket, 1800s

Italian

Screen, ca.1130-1300

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, 1610

Indian

Headpiece, 1800s

Attributed to Pierre Reymond, enameler

March Calendar Plate, ca. 1560

Anglo Flemish, England

Portrait of a Lady of the Hampden Family, ca. 1610

Charles François Daubigny

Landscape, 1871

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, printmaker

Plate 18: Chimneypiece in the Egyptian Style, 1769

English, Whieldon

Teapot, ca. 1760

Attributed to Girolamo Campagna

Door Knocker, ca. 1570-1599

Jeanne Deny

Plate 2, 1770

Jacopo di Cione

The Taking of Saint Peter, 1370-1371

Spinello Aretino

St. Anthony Abbot Enthroned, ca.1385

Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d’Arpino

Perseus and Andromeda, ca. 1592

Thomas Lawrence

Portrait of Lady Sarah Ingestre, ca. 1827-1828

Spanish

Christ in Majesty, ca. 1090-1100
No Image Available

French

Interior of a Wallpaper Shop, ca. 1785

Spanish, Possibly from Aragonese Pyrenees

The Crucified Christ, ca. 1150-1200

American, Likely Massachusetts Bay Colony

Canvas-work picture, mid 1700s

Paul Cézanne

On the Banks of a River, ca. 1904-1905

Paul Gauguin

Busagny Farm, Osny, 1883

Daniel Marot

Plates from New Book of Pendulum Clocks, Pocketwatch Cases, and other Things Necessary to Clockmakers (Nouveaux Livre de Boïtes de Pendules de Coqs . . . ), 1712

Probably Castel Durante

Bella Donna Plate, ca. 1535-1540

Nicolas Poussin

Venus and Adonis, ca. 1628

Giovanni Paolo Pannini

The Colosseum, ca. 1750

Studio of Baldessare degli Embriachi

Casket, ca. 1400

Attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi

A Musical Group, ca. 1730

François Honoré Georges Jacob-Desmalter, cabinetmaker

Console table, ca. 1805

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Young Woman Reading an Illustrated Journal, ca. 1880

Giambologna

River God (The Virile Age; The Euphrates), ca. 1575

Jan Joest

Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1520

Guillaume Beneman, cabinetmaker

Drop-Front Secretary (Secrétaire à Abattant), ca. 1800-1810

Claude Monet

The Basin at Argenteuil, 1874

Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples, ca. 1878

German, Germany Augsburg Augsburg

Book Cover, 1500-1550

French, France

Venus at Her Toilette, ca. 1770

Joseph Chinard

Bust of Madame Récamier, after 1801

Francesco Guardi

Main Salon in the Ridotto, Venice, ca. 1765

Jean-Victor Bertin

Tivoli, ca. 1835-1842

Jorge de la Vega

Historia de Vampiros (Vampire Story), 1963

Georges Braque

Still Life, 1918

Alessandro Magnasco

Arsenal in a Ruined Basilica, ca. 1711-1720

Italian, Rome

Micromosaic Tabletop with Nine Views of Rome, ca. 1830–1850

Spanish

Pendant, 1700-1750

Henri Matisse

The Green Pumpkin, ca. 1916

Flemish or French, France

Tapestry, ca. 1500

Bruges Master

Portrait of a Cleric, ca. 1490

Aert de Gelder

Esther and Mordecai, ca. 1685

Italian, (Probably Florence)

Apothecary Jar (Orciuolo), ca. 1419-1460

François Honoré Georges Jacob-Desmalter, cabinetmaker

Stool, early 1800s

François Honoré Georges Jacob-Desmalter, cabinetmaker

Stool, early 1800s

Italian, Florence or Siena

Birth Tray (Desco da Parto) Depicting the Birth of the Virgin, ca. 1430

French, Dordogne region

Apostle, ca. 1110

Netherlandish

The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1510

Vincent van Gogh

View of Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890

French, Île de France

Diptych with scenes of the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and the Last Judgement, ca. 1275–1325

Pietro Longhi

A Meal at Home, ca. 1753

Camille Pissarro

Field and Mill at Osny, 1884

James Tissot

Ladies of the Chariots (Ces Dames des chars), 1883-1885

Jean-Joseph Chapuis, cabinetmaker

Armchair (one of a pair), ca. 1810-1815

French

Tracery Arch, ca. 1300

Francesco Vanni

The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi, 1599

French

Stained Glass Window, ca. 1225-1235

German, Germany north

Owl Beaker, 1556

Franz Xaver Habermann, designer

Ornament (Cartouche for an Escutcheon), 1700s

Italian

Pestle, 1680

Italian

Drug Jar (Albarello), ca.1550

Ottoman Turkish, Cyprus Anatolia

St. George Banner, 1600s

Jan Cossiers

The Supper at Emmaus, ca. 1650

Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont

A View of Paris from the Louvre, 1835

Italian

Brooch and Earrings, 1855

Spanish, Barcelona, Spain

Monstrance, ca. 1525

Franz Xaver Habermann, designer

Cartouches and Rocaille Motifs, 1700s
No Image Available

Jean-Léon Gérôme, designer

The Egyptian Smoker (Le Fumeur Egyptien), ca. 1865

Pierre Reymond, enameler

Virgin and Child with Clerics and Donors, ca.1513-after 1584

English

Leaf from a Book of Hours, ca. 1350

French

Romanesque Portal, ca. 1150

Italian

Micromosaic Brooch and Earrings, ca. 1865-1870

Charles Lock Eastlake

The Celian Hill from the Palatine, ca. 1823

French, (Dordogne region)

Apostle, ca. 1110

German, Germany, probably Augsburg

Writing Desk (Schreibtisch), ca. 1590

Italian

Brooch, ca.1590

Alessandro Abondio

Pendant, 1626

Salomon van Ruysdael

The Ferry Boat, 1645

Italian Sienese, (Siena or Pisa)

Angel of the Annunciation, ca. 1350

Eugène Delacroix

Arabs Traveling, 1855

Anton Raphael Mengs

Portrait of an English Gentleman, ca. 1754

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Two Children Looking at a Book, 1824-1825

German

Death of the Virgin, ca. 1460

Lippo Memmi

Mary Magdalene, ca. 1330

German English, London England

Tigerware Jug, 1579-1580

Louis-Jules-Frédéric Villeneuve

View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli, 1827

Italian

Cup, 1550-1600

Italian Florentine, Florence Italy

Pietra Dura Brooch, 1800s

Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp

The Resurrection of Christ, ca. 1640

Andrea Previtali

Risen Christ, ca. 1510

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Angel of Fame, ca. 1750

French

Pax, ca. 1510

Chinese, China, for export to Portugal

Saldanha Platter, ca. 1760

Indian, for the French or European market

Palampore, ca. 1775

Chinese, China, for export to the Netherlands

Plate with Scholten Impaling Hogenberg Coat of Arms, ca. 1730-1740

Francesco Guardi

Scuola di San Marco with Loggia Erected for Benediction of Pope Pius VI May 19, 1782, Campo San Zanipolo, ca. 1782

Bohemian

Stemmed Cup with Cover, 1700-1720

Claude Monet

A Walk in the Meadows at Argenteuil, 1873

Francisco Collantes

Hagar and Ishmael, ca. 1640

French

Saint Roch, ca. 1500

Paul Cézanne

Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan, ca. 1886

Angelica Kauffmann

Praxiteles Giving Phryne his Statue of Cupid, 1794

Donnamaria Bruton

Me and My Dad, 1996

Sevres Porcelain Manufactory, manufacturer

Fabrication du Carton Plate, 1835

Domenico Gagini

Tabernacle, ca. 1460-1470

Austrian, probably Vienna Austria

Globe Table (Globustisch), 1810-1820

Italian

Mortar, 1680

Gustave Courbet

Jura Landscape, 1869

Auguste Rodin

The Hand of God, designed ca. 1898; carving completed ca. 1917

Spanish

Head of Christ or a Saint, ca. 1220-1240

Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier

Mountaineers Attacked by Bears, 1910-1912

Guillaume Guillon, called Lethière

The Death of Camilla, 1785

Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Seated Woman, cast 1915

Spanish, possibly Province of Léon

Christ in Majesty, ca. 1100-1200

Northern Italian

Apollo, ca. 1540

Italian Venetian

Bowl, ca. 1600

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Banks of a River Dominated in the Distance by Hills, ca. 1871-1873

Domenico Fetti

Christ Ministered To by the Angels, ca. 1620

Italian, Urbino Italy

Plate, ca. 1540-1550

Bartolo di Fredi Cini

Madonna and Child, ca. 1380

Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault

A Cart Loaded with Kegs, ca.1822-1823

Daniel Marot

Plate from New Book of Pendulum Clocks, Pocketwatch Cases, and other Things Necessary to Clockmakers (Nouveaux Livre de Boïtes de Pendules de Coqs . . . ), 1712

Edgar Degas

La Savoisienne, ca. 1860

Théodore Rousseau

Valley of the Seine, ca. 1831-1832

Camillo Pacetti, modeler

Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector around the Walls of Troy, ca. 1800

Possibly Portuguese, (worked in India)

Altar Frontal, 1600s

Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne

Portrait of Antoine-Georges-François de Chabaud-Latour and His Family, 1806

Egyptian

Page from a Qur'an, 1300s

Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Émile Durand)

Portrait of Édouard Manet, 1876

Adèle Romany

Portrait of Auguste Vestris, 1793

Berthe Morisot

Child in a Red Apron, 1886

Attributed to Master of the Missal of Amboise Le Veneur

Book of Hours (use of Rouen), ca. 1510

George Wesley Bellows, designer

Pool Player, 1921

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