The Mouseion · The Long Century · After Impressionism
After Impressionism
Van Gogh’s brushwork, Cézanne’s solid geometry, Gauguin’s flat colour, Seurat’s dots, and the dreamlike Symbolists: the painters who took Impressionism apart and laid the road to modern art.
On the walls this month
Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond — Jacob van Ruisdael (1623–1682), 1650–55, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of a Man — Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), 1880, oil on canvas
Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Old Man with a Gold Chain — Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), 1631, Oil on panel
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Edge of the Woods Near L'Hermitage, Pontoise — Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), 1879, oil on fabric
Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Helena Tromper Du Bois — Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), c. 1631, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Unfinished Study of Sheep — Constant Troyon (1810–1865), c. 1850, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse) — Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), 1889, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait — Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), 1887, Oil on artist's board, mounted on cradled panel
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut — Ancient Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period, probably Dynasty 21 (about 1069-945 BCE), Papyrus and pigment
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait — Walter Shirlaw (1838–1909), 1878, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Rip Van Winkle — John Quidor (1801–1881), 1829, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
The Plate of Apples — Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), c. 1877, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Saint George and the Dragon — Bernat Martorell (died 1452), 1434–35, Tempera on panel
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Still Life with Flowers — Odilon Redon (1840–1916), 1905, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
The Child's Bath — Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), 1893, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Adoration of the Magi — Jan van Scorel (1495–1562), c. 1519, Oil on panel
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree) — Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), 1892, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
The Song of the Lark — Jules Breton (1827–1906), 1884, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
The Beach at Deauville — Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), 1864, oil on wood panel
Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Basket of Apples — Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), c. 1893, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain — Adriaen van der Spelt (1635–1681), 1658, Oil on panel
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1890–91, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 — Georges Seurat (1859–1891), 1884–86, border added 1888–89, Oil on canvas
Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
More of The Long Century
- Romanticism & Realism — Storms, ruins, mountains and the sublime, then a turn to the real: peasants, labourers and the people painters passed…
- Impressionism — Painting outdoors, fast, in broken colour: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas and Cassatt caught the light of a…
- New Worlds 1900–1930 — Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and the first abstract paintings. In thirty years art broke with five…
Where the works come from
Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
- The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
- Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere