Museums at a Glance – http://risd.edu/pdf/mus_ed/french.pdf

            

ROMANESQUE

(1000-1200)

GOTHIC

(1140-1500)

Baltimore Museum of Art

 

http://www.artbma.org/

Virgin and Child, c. 1330-40

Anonymous, Burgundian

Limestone sculpture

BMA 1942.46

 

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

 

http://www.mfa.org/collectons

Apostle
French (Languedoc), Medieval (Romanesque), Middle or third quarter of the 12th century France, Languedoc
Limestone

Seated Virgin and Child, 1210-1225

French (Soissons)

Wood with polychromy and gilding

59.701

Carnegie Museum of Art

 

http://www.cmoa.org

 

Plaque of the Enthroned Christ

Limoges, 13th century

Enamel

Decorative Arts Purchase Fund, 56.57.1

Roundel, Virgin, 1210-1225

French, possibly Soissons
Stained glass

Eleanor McCargo Standish Fund, 69.17

Cornell University – Herbert F. Johnson Museum

 

http://www.museum.cornell.edu

Corbel from the Cathedral at Troyes, 13th century Anonymous, French

Limestone

Transferred from the Cornell U. Library

 

Two Leaves of the Book of Hours with Miniature Depicting the Annunciation with the Shephards, 1460-70

Ink, egg tempera, and gold leaf on vellum

Gift of Miriam Saunders

 

Madonna and Child
France, ca. 1380
Limestone with traces of polychrome.
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Fund. 71.91

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist, early 9th century; Early Medieval
Carolingian; Made in Aachen, Lotharingia
The Cloisters Collection, 1977 (1977.421)

Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus (Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus), 1200–1205
French; Made in Rouen
Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint
The Cloisters Collection, 1980 (1980.263.4)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections

Capital with Depictions of Demons Punishing the Sins of Avarice and Blasphemy, c. 1175-1200
Stone
Purchased with Museum funds, 1945-25-47

France (Limoges), second half of 13th century
Arched Entrance from the Chapter House of the Carmelite Convent in Limoges (Les Grands Carmes des Arènes)
Stone
Purchased with funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Tatnall Starr, 1928-76-1

Springfield Museum of Art

 

http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/museums/mfa/

 

Mirror Back ( A Lover and His Lady and the Lover Crowned)

French, first half of the 14th century

Ivory

Henry Alexander Phillips Collection, 68.Mi.01

Wadsworth Athenaeum

 

http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org

 

Annunciation, ca. 1480

Oil on canvas transferred from panel

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund

1942.351

Worcester Museum of Art

 

http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection

Capital

French (Bourges), early 12th century

Limestone

Museum purchase, 1941.42

Virgin and Child, c. 1300

French (Paris)

Ivory

1927.46

 

Episode from the Legend of 7 Sleepers of Ephesus, 1205

Stained Glass

1921.60

 


 

Museums at a Glance

 

RENAISSANCE

BAROQUE

(France: 1600-1750)

ROCOCO

(1723-74) Reign of Louis XV

Baltimore Museum of Art

 

http://www.artbma.org/

 

 

 

 

Jean-Marc Nattier

Elisabeth Rigoly d’Ogny as “Night, 1752

Oil on canvas

1938.181

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

 

http://www.mfa.org/collectons

Tapestry: Music (from the series THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS)
French, First quarter of the 16th centuryTournai, France
Tapestry weave

 

Nicolas Poussin

Mars and Venus, c. 1630

Oil on canvas

40.89

 

Francois Boucher

Halt at the Spring

Oil on canvas

71.2

 

Return From Market, 1767

Oil on canvas

71.3

Carnegie Museum of Art

 

http://www.cmoa.org

 

Portrait of a Nobleman

c. 1550-1600

oil on panel

Bequest of Howard A. Noble, 64.11.9

 

Simon Vouet The Toilet of Venus, c. 1640


oil on canvas

Gift of Mrs. Horace Binney Hare, 52.7

 

Jean Baptiste Greuze (after)

The Coquette, c. 1770

oil on canvas

J. Willis Dalzell Memorial Collection, bequest of Mrs. J. Willis Dalzell, 29.2.10

Cornell Museum

 

http://www.museum.cornell.edu

 

Nicolas de Largilliere

Portrait of Mlle de Lafayette

Oil on canvas

Gift of the Arthur H. Dean, Class of 19919 and Mary Marden Dean

 

 

 

LOUIS-MARIN BONNET
after Francois Boucher, French
Head of Flora (Tête de Flore), 1769
Pastel-manner etching and engraving printed in color from seven plates.
Gift of Nathaniel Donson. 87.75

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

Guillaume Budé, ca. 1536
Jean Clouet

Tempera and oil on wood
Maria DeWitt Jessup Fund, 46.68

Nicolas Poussin

 Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658
Oil on canvas
Fletcher Fund, 24.45.1

Air: Louis XIV as Jupiter, from a set of eight wall hangings depicting the Elements and the Seasons, ca. 1683
French
Silk, wool, and metal thread
Rogers Fund, 46.43.4

(commissioned by marquise de Montespan – depicted in Vatel)

 

 

François Boucher

The Toilet of Venus, 1751
Oil on canvas
Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 20.155.9

National Gallery of Art

 

 

 

Nicolas Poussin
The Feeding of the Child Jupiter, c. 1640
oil on canvas
Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.2.21

François Boucher
The Love Letter, 1750
oil on canvas

Timken Collection, 1960.6.3

 

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater
Fête Champêtre, c. 1730
oil on canvas

Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946.7.19

 

Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections

Joos van Cleve, Netherlandish
Portrait of Francis I, King of France, c. 1525
Oil on panel
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Nicolas Poussin
The Birth of Venus, 1635 or 1636
Oil on canvas
The George W. Elkins Collection E1932-1-1

Noël-Nicolas Coypel

 The Abduction of Europa, 1727
Oil on canvas
1978-160-1

Springfield Museum of Art

 

http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/museums/mfa/

Master MM

The Deposition with Saints Sebastian and Roche, 1515

Tempura with oil glazes on wood panel

James Philip Gray Collection, 60.05

Pierre Patel, The Elder

Italian Landscape with Ruins

Oil on canvas

James Philip Gray Collection, 67.10

 

 

 

François Boucher

The Journey to Market, late 1730

Oil on canvas

James Philip Gray Collection, 55.01

 

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

Visit to the Hermit

Oil on canvas

James Philip Gray Collection, 56.14

 

Wadsworth Athenaeum

 

 

http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org

 

Nicholas Poussin

Crucifixion

Oil on canvas

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1935.422

 

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Princesse de Condé

Oil on canvas

Gift of Mrs. Francis T. Maxwell, 1945.283

*the princess is a character in the film Vatel*

 

 

François Boucher

The Egg Seller

Oil on canvas.

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1977.1

 

Worcester Museum of Art

 

http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection

School of Fontainbleu

Woman at Her Toilette

Oil on panel

Museum purchase, 1932.23

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Poetrait of Charles_Auguste d’Allonville

Marquis de Louville, 1708

Oil on canvas

Elizabeth S Paine Fund, 1980.35

Jean-Baptiste Pater

The Dance, c. 1736

Oil on canvas

Museum purchase 1942.53

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

NEOCLASSICAL

(1780-1820)

ROMANTIC

(1800-1850)

Baltimore Museum of Art

 

http://www.artbma.org/

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin, 1797

Oil on canvas

1938.192

Eugène Delaroix

Perseus and Andromeda, 1847

Oil on paper on wood panel

1950.207

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

 

http://www.mfa.org/collectons

Henri Alexandre Georges Regnault

Automedon With the Horses of Achilles

Oil on canvas

90.152

 

Carnegie Museum of Art

 

http://www.cmoa.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cornell Museum

 

http://www.museum.cornell.edu

 

Gabriel_Alexandre Decamps

The Sentinel, 1860

Oil on canvas

Gift of Mr and Mrs Joseph M. Katz

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

Jacques-Louis David

The Death of Socrates, 1787
Oil on canvas
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 31.45

Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca, 1846
Oil on canvas
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 03.30

National Gallery of Art

Jacques-Louis David
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, 1812
Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.15

Eugène Delacroix
Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains, 1863
Chester Dale Fund, 1966.12.1

 

Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections

Georges Jacob and François-Honoré-Georges Jacob, called Jacob-Desmalter

Writing Cabinet
Mahogany, oak, marble, gilded bronze mounts
The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986-26-86

 

Portrait of Pope Pius VII and Cardinal Caprarac. 1805
Jacques-Louis David
Oil on panel
Gift of Henry P. McIlhenny, 1971-265-1

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix

 The Death of Sardanapalus, 1844
Oil on canvas
The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986-26-17

 

 

 

Wadsworth Athenaeum

 

 

http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org

 

 

Hubert Robert

Landscape with Ruins, 1799

Oil on canvas

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Koopman and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schiro, 1976.100

 

Jacques Louis David (workshop)

The Lictors Bearing His Sons to Brutus

Oil on canvas

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1934.34

Eugéne Delacroix

Bathers, 1854

Oil on canvas

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1952.300

 

Eugéne Delacroix

Tiger Drinking, 1835

Oil on panel

Gift of Henry E. Schnakenberg, 1961.287

 

Worcester Museum of Art

 

http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar

Electra Receiving the Ashes of Her Brother Orestes, 1826-27

Oil on canvas

Stoddard Acquisition Fund, 1991.47

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Le Geste Napolitain, 1757

Oil on canvas

Charlotte E. W. Buffington Fund, 1964.113

 

 

 

 

BARBIZON

IMPRESSIONIST

POINTILIST

FAUVES

PROTOCUBIST & CUBIST

Baltimore Museum of Art

 

http://www.artbma.

org/

Theodore Rousseau

Forest at Fontainebleau, 1850’s

Oil on wood

1996.45.238

Claude Monet

Charing Cross Bridge, 1901-04

Oil on canvas

1945.94

 

 

Paul Signac

Quay at Clichy, 1887

Oil on canvas

1928..6.1

Henri Matisse

Purple robe and Anemones, 1937

Oil on canvas

1950.261

Paul Cezanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry, c.1897

Oil on canvas

1950.196

 

Georges Braque

Still Life: Le Journal, 1929

Oil on canvas

BMA 1942.64

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

 

http://www.mfa.org/ collectons

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Forest of Fontainbleu, 1846

Oil on canvas

90.199

Claude Monet

Morning on the Seine, near Giverny, 1897

Oil on canvas

11.1261

 

Grainstack (Snow Effect), 1891

Oil on canvas

1970.253

Woman in a Park
Imitator of: Georges Pierre Seurat, French, 1859–1891
Oil on panel
68.75

 

Paul Gaugin

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897

Oil on canvas

36.270

Paul Cezanne

Madame Cezanne in the Red Armchair, c. 1877

Oil on canvas

44.776

 

 

Carnegie Museum of Art

 

http://www.cmoa.org

 

Charles-Francois Daubigny

Landscape with Cottage, c. 1858-1865

oil on panel

Bequest of Margaret Shaw Campbell

78.22.1

 

Claude Monet

Waterloo Bridge, 1903

Oil on canvas

Acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Family, 67.2

 

Water Lilies

Oil on canvas

Acquired through the generosity of Mrs. Alan M. Scaife, 62.19.1

 

Henri Matisse

Odalisque with Green Headdress, 1923

oil on canvas

Acquired through the generosity of Mrs. Alan M. Scaife, 62.19.2

Paul Cezanne

Landscape Near Aix, The Plain of the Arc River, 1892-1895

oil on canvas

Acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Family, 66.4

 

 

Cornell Museum

 

http://www.museum.cornell.edu

Charles-Francois Daubigny

Les Champs au Mois de Juin, 1874

Oil on canvas

Gift of Louis V Keeler and Mrs Keeler

 

 

 

 

Henri Matisse
The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown,
Plate V from the Jazz series, 1947
Color pochoir
Gift of Bruce Allyn Eissner, Class of 1965, and Judith Pick Eissner. 80.63.5

Jean Metzenger

Scene du Port

Oil on canvas

Membership purchase fund

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah

Charles-François Daubigny

 On the Banks of the Oise, 1864
Oil on wood
Gift of Mary V. T. Eberstadt, 64.149.6

 

Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau

The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, 1854
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 96.27

Claude Monet

Landscape at Zaandam, 1871
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.1.196

 

Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun), 1891
Oil on canvas
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 29.100.109

 

 

Georges-Pierre Seurat

Circus Sideshow, 1887–88
Oil on canvas

Clark, 61.101.17

Henri Matisse
The Red Studio, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1911
Oil on canvas
Mrs. Simon Geggenheim Fund, 8.1949

 

View of Collioure and the Sea, 1907
Oil on canvas
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1999.363.42

Paul Cézanne

Gardanne, 1885–86
Oil on canvas
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Franz H. Hirschland, 57.181

 

Georges Braque
Candlestick and Playing Cards on a Table, 1910
Oil on canvas

The Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls Collection, 1997.149.12

Guitar and Still Life on a Guéridon, 1922
Oil with sand on canvas
Gift of Louise Reinhardt Smith, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1979.481

National Gallery of Art

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Beach near Etretat, c. 1872
oil on canvas
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.117

 

Claude Monet
The Seine at Giverny, 1897
oil on canvas
Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.180


Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil, 1880
oil on canvas
Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.177

 

Georges Seurat
Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, 1888
oil on canvas
Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman, 1972.9.21

Henri Matisse
Open Window, Collioure, 1905
oil on canvas
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1998.74.7

Paul Cézanne
Still Life with Apples and Peaches, c. 1905
Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1959.15.1

 

Georges Braque
Still Life: Le Jour, 1929
oil on canvas
Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.91

Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections


Charles-François Daubigny

Solitude, 1869
Oil on canvas
The George W. Elkins Collection,  E1924-4-10

 

Claude Monet
Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil, 1874
Oil on canvas
 John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

 

Poplars on the Bank of the Epte River, 1891
Oil on canvas
Bequest of Anne Thomson in memory of her father, Frank Thomson, and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Clarke Thomson, 1954

Camille Pissarro

 L'Île Lacroix, Rouen (The Effect of Fog)
Oil on canvas
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Henri Matisse

Woman in Blue, 1937
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs. John Wintersteen, 1956-23-1

 

Yellow Odalisque, 1937
Oil on canvas

The Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection, 1967-30-57

Paul Cézanne

Quartier Four, Auvers-sur-Oise (Landscape, Auvers), c. 1873
Oil on canvas
The Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection, 1967-30-16

 

Georges Braque

Harmonica and Flageolet, 1910-11
Oil on canvas
A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952-61-4

 

Violin and Pipe,1920-21
Oil and sand on canvas
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950-134-30

 

Portland Museum of Art

Charles Francois Daubigny

Troupeau Marchant Dans L’Eau, 1874

Oil on board

Gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation 1999.49.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henri Matisse

La Séance de Trois Heures, 1924

Oil on canvas

Private Collection, 17.2002.5

Paul Cezanne

Pears and Knife, 1879-1882

Oil on canvas

Private Collection 8.2002

 

Georges Braque

Still Life with Fruit Bowl and Pitcher, 1920

Oil on canvas

Mr and Mrs Daneil Copp, Sr Collection, 32.1987

 

 

Springfield Museum of Art

 

http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/museums/mfa/

Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Pena

Pool in the Forest of Fontainbleu, 1874

Oil on canvas

Gift of Mrs. Douglas V. Wallace, 47.06

Claude Monet

Haystack, 1893

Oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wadsworth Athenaeum

 

 

http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org

Gustave Courbet

A Bay with Cliffs

Oil on canvas

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1952.301

 

Charles François Daubigny

French Farm

Oil on canvas

Gift of Clara Kellogg Strakosch, 1914.11

 

Claude Monet

Beach at Trouville, 1880

Oil on canvas

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1948.116

 

Nymphaeas, 1907

Oil on canvas

Bequest of Anne Parrish Titzell, 1957.622

 

Camille Pissarro

Flooded Field, 1873

Oil on canvas

The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1966.315

 

 

 

Worcester Museum of Art

 

http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection

Gustave Courbet (Realist movement)

Woman with a Cat, 1864

Oil on canvas

Museum purchase, 1940.300

Claude Monet

Water Lilies, 1908

Oil on canvas

Museum purchase, 1910.26

Paul Signac

Golfe Juan, 1896

Oil on canvas

Gift from the Chapin and Mary Alexander Riley Collection, 1964.27

Georges Braque

Olive Trees, 1907

Oil on canvas

Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Aldus Chapin Higgins, 1970.122

Jacques Villon

Monsieur D. Reading

Drypoint on cream laid paper

Museum purchase, 1953.85