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Sharing artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago's European Painting and Sculpture department.
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The Brook of Les Puits-Noir https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16490/
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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James McNeill Whistler https://www.artic.edu/artworks/28086/
A. A. Munger Collection
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Auvers, Panoramic View https://www.artic.edu/artworks/14556/
Paul Cézanne painted this work during his first prolonged stay at Auvers, where the older Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro was his companion and mentor. He chose to focus not on a notable, picturesque site—the Oise River or the medieval church of Notre-Dame—but rather on the patchwork formed by the town’s ordinary houses and rooftops. The tall white structure with a single window on the left of the composition is the house of Dr. Paul Gachet, a friend and collector of the Impressionists and the painting’s first owner. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Meditation (Seated Woman) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/80587/
Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Landscape with Figures https://www.artic.edu/artworks/887/
Henry Field Memorial Collection
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Panel Emblematical of the Arts https://www.artic.edu/artworks/15291/
Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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The Crucifixion https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111622/
Wirt D. Walker Fund
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Teucer, Brother of Ajax https://www.artic.edu/artworks/567/
Gift of George A. Armour
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The Baptism of Christ https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16197/
Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond, most famously through his contact with the young Raphael. These four panels, together with another one depicting the Resurrection, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, once constituted a predella—a series of small pictures, often with narrative content, forming the base of an altarpiece. In this case, the painting that was positioned above the predella as the focal point of the altarpiece is unidentified. The predella scenes depict moments when Christ’s special nature was revealed: his birth, his baptism by Saint John the Baptist in the river Jordan, his conversation with a woman of Samaria at the well of the patriarch Jacob, the Resurrection, and his appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection. Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain https://www.artic.edu/artworks/66042/
Wirt D. Walker Fund
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Village in Brittany https://www.artic.edu/artworks/5355/
Charles H. Worcester Sketch Collection
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The Battle of Pharsalus and the Death of Pompey https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47601/
Bequest of C. Ruby Sears in honor of Richard Warren Sears II
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Archangel Michael Overcoming the Devil https://www.artic.edu/artworks/147876/
Bequest of Chester D. Tripp
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Little Girl Pouting https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16373/
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Sorrow https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13600/
Gift of Robert Allerton
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Woman Seated in an Armchair https://www.artic.edu/artworks/68365/
Wirt D. Walker Endowment
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81558/
The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats in the famed Cirque Fernando in Paris. Although they were depicted in the center of a circus ring, the sisters actually posed in costume in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s studio, enabling him to paint them in daylight. Here he portrayed them just as they have finished their act and are taking their bows. One sister turns to the crowd, acknowledging its approval, while the other faces the viewer with an armful of oranges, a rare treat that the audience has tossed in tribute. Although Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando reflects the artist’s enchantment with the innocence of childhood—he has enveloped the girls in a virtual halo of pinks, oranges, yellows, and whites—the partially visible, darkly clothed (mainly male) spectators allude to the less wholesome, nocturnal demimonde of the nineteenth-century circus in which these two young performers grew up. The famed Chicago collector Mrs. Potter Palmer purchased Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando in 1892 and was so enamored of the picture that she kept it with her at all times, even on her travels abroad. Potter Palmer Collection
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi https://www.artic.edu/artworks/59002/
Camille Corot returned to Paris in 1843 from the last of three trips to Italy, but the Italian countryside continued to dominate his art. While the Realists painted peasants and scenes of rural life, the elderly Corot preferred landscapes, with which he could convey a timeless, classical past. Although this picture represents a famous hillside lake in northern Italy, Corot transformed the topography into a personal, bucolic reminiscence (souvenir) through his use of silvery grays and intense deep greens. Bequest of Florence S. McCormick
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Bozzetto for Saint Paul https://www.artic.edu/artworks/210686/
Through prior gift of Adolf Caspar Miller; Murray and Virginia Vale Purchase Fund
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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In the Auvergne https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81516/
Potter Palmer Collection
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Portrait of a Man in a Tricorn Hat https://www.artic.edu/artworks/70133/
Bequest of John and Dorothy Estabrook
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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African Chief https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100352/
George F. Harding Collection
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The Lamentation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/35195/
Gift of Dellora A. Norris
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Sir Joseph Banks https://www.artic.edu/artworks/7010/
Gift of Mrs. Alfred E. Hamill
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Portrait of Mary of Modena https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16014/
Miss Mary Louise Stevenson for addition to the Colonel Alexander F. and Jeannie C. Stevenson memorial collection
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM