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Three pale mannequins wearing brightly patterned Victorian clothing in varying shades of orange and blue stand to the left of small framed drawings and a larger colorful illustration.
Installation view of European Galleries on view 09-02-2017 through at the RISD Museum.

European Galleries

Three pale mannequins wearing brightly patterned Victorian clothing in varying shades of orange and blue stand to the left of small framed drawings and a larger colorful illustration.
Installation view of European Galleries on view 09-02-2017 through at the RISD Museum.

Museum Galleries, Joint

Introduction

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.

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A woman with dark hair and a calm expression reclines in a long white dress on a red sofa, one arm outstretched holding a fan, beneath a framed blue turbulent seascape painting.

Édouard Manet

Repose (Le Repos)

Nicolas Poussin

Venus and Adonis
Sculpture with ceramic body covered in blue, white, and tan decoration. Image in the center of Jesus next to the words “God save the queens.” Ceramic is framed by a metal top and base on four ornate feet.

Léopold L. Foulem

God Save the Queens

Édouard Manet

Children in the Tuileries Gardens

John Singleton Copley

Portrait of Theodore Atkinson Jr. (1737-1769)
Landscape painting with thick, textured brushstrokes depicting an idyllic village scene of blue-gray rooftops rising among green trees above a golden field, the sky filled with swirling pale blue clouds.

Vincent van Gogh

View of Auvers-sur-Oise

Unknown Maker, English

Chasuble

Pietro Perugino

Madonna and Child
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