↗France, late 19th century-early 20th century · c. 1915–26
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
EXPLORE / TRADITIONS
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.
DATES IN THIS SAMPLE
1320–1928
Object dates, not the boundaries of a tradition.
LOOKING PROMPT
Compare the objects below. Which materials and visual choices recur? Which differences resist a single label?
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↗Netherlands · 1890
Adeline Ravoux
Vincent van Gogh
↗France, 19th century · 1890
The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue
Paul Cezanne
↗France, 19th century · 1887–88
At the Concert Parisien
Georges Seurat
↗France, 19th century · 1873
Reading
Berthe Morisot
↗France, 19th century · c. 1895
Frieze of Dancers
Edgar Degas
↗America, late 18th-19th Century · 1901
After the Bath
Mary Cassatt
↗France, 19th century · 1889
In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)
Paul Gauguin
↗United States · 1900–1903
Early Morning After a Storm at Sea
Winslow Homer
↗United States · 1898
Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis
John Singer Sargent
↗America · 1879–80
The Garden
James McNeill Whistler
↗Netherlands · c. 1655–60
A Bearded Man Wearing a Hat
Studio of Rembrandt van Rijn
↗Netherlands · c. 1640–45
Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness
Rembrandt van Rijn
↗Flanders · c. 1620–25
Portrait of Isabella Brant
Peter Paul Rubens
↗Flanders · c. 1639
Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid)
Peter Paul Rubens
↗Flanders · c. 1623–25
A Genoese Lady with Her Child
Anthony van Dyck
↗Flanders · 1630–33
Frans Snyders
Anthony van Dyck
↗France, 19th century · c. 1868–73
The Red Kerchief
Claude Monet
↗France, 19th century · 1882
Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882
Claude Monet
↗France, 19th century · 1890
Young Saint John
Berthe Morisot
↗France, 19th century · c. 1877–80
Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat
Berthe Morisot
↗France, 19th century · c. 1878–80
Paul Lafond and Alphonse Cherfils Examining a Painting
Edgar Degas
↗France, 19th century · c. 1890
Estérel Village
Edgar Degas
↗France, late 19th-early 20th Century · c. 1904
Mount Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cezanne
↗France, late 19th-early 20th Century · c. 1895–1900
The Brook
Paul Cezanne
↗France, 19th century · 1879
Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
↗France, 19th century · c. 1881
The Mender
Camille Pissarro
↗France, 19th century · c. 1886
Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
↗France, 19th century · 1864
Romaine Lacaux
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
↗Spain · 1819
Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo
Francisco de Goya
↗Spain · 1799
When Day Breaks We Will Be Off, Plate 71
Francisco de Goya
↗England, 19th century · 1828
Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead
John Constable
↗England, 19th century · c. 1821
Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow
John Constable
↗Italy, Venice · after c. 1571
Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo
Paolo Veronese
↗Italy, Venice · c. 1580
Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)
Paolo Veronese
↗England, 19th century · 1835
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner
↗France, 19th century · 1888
Gardener's House at Antibes
Claude Monet
↗France, 19th century · 1864
Spring Flowers
Claude Monet
↗France, 20th century · 1905
Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
↗France, 19th century · 1872
The Lock at Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
↗England, 19th century · c. 1800–37
Landscape with Trees Surrounding a Pond
John Constable
↗France · 1645
Saint Peter Repentant
Georges de La Tour
↗France · c. 1781
Invocation to Love
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
↗Italy · c. 1572
Fata Morgana
Creator not recorded
↗Italy · 1533–34
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Girolamo Rosati
Lorenzo Lotto
↗Netherlands · 1634
Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman
Frans Hals
↗Netherlands · 1889
The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)
Vincent van Gogh
↗France, Paris · c. 1320–40
Table Fountain
Creator not recorded
↗Germany, Würzburg, 16th century · 1502–8
Saint Lawrence
Tilman Riemenschneider
↗Italy · c. 1488–93
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret
Filippino Lippi
↗Italy · c. 1490
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Sandro Botticelli
↗Netherlands, 16th century · 1589
The Great Hercules or 'Knollenman'
Hendrick Goltzius
↗France · c. 1611–13
The Virgin and Child with Distaff and an Angel
Jacques Bellange
↗Italy, Naples · 1606–7
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
Caravaggio
↗Italy · c. 1675
Sleeping Christ Child
Filippo Parodi
↗France, Paris · 1735–38
Covered Tureen on Stand (Pot-à-oille)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
↗France · 1782
The Swing
Nicolas Delaunay
↗England, 19th century · c. 1802–07
Settee
Thomas Hope
↗France · 1777–78
Snuff Box (Tabatière)
François Chazeray
↗France, 19th century · 1858
Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest
Eugène Delacroix
↗France · 1832
A Young Black Woman Fetching Water
Eugène Delacroix
↗France, 19th century · 1863
Mme L . . . (Laure Borreau)
Gustave Courbet
↗France, 19th century · 1877
Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi
Gustave Courbet
↗England, 19th century · 1851
Study for "The Hireling Shepherd"
William Holman Hunt
↗England, 19th century · 1871
The Coral Necklace
Frederick Sandys
↗France, 19th century · 1897
The Promenade (Landscape with Cypresses)
Henri-Edmond Cross
↗France, 19th century · c. 1891
Portrait of a Woman
Edmond François Aman-Jean
↗France · c. 1903–10
Orpheus
Odilon Redon
↗Germany, 20th century · 1909
Wrestlers in a Circus
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
↗Germany, 20th century · 1928
Singing Man
Ernst Barlach
↗France, Paris · c. 1916
Still Life
María Blanchard
↗France, 20th century · c. 1923
Night Café
Louis Marcoussis
↗Germany, 20th century · 1923
Merz 3 Portfolio: Plate 1
Kurt Schwitters
↗Germany, 20th century · 1920
Little Dance
Kurt Schwitters
↗Netherlands · 1927
Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
Piet Mondrian