French and Flemish Paintings 1600-1700 - Section E202 (18) between 1600 and 1700 The classicizing and naturalistic tendencies that evolved in Italy in the 1600s spread to the rest of Europe, appearing, for example, in the work of French painters such as Poussin and de La Tour.
European Paintings 1700-1800 - Section S201 (12) between 1700 and 1800 The painters whose pictures hang in this gallery were contributors to the Paris Salon, a grand exhibition hosted every two years by the French Academy of Fine Arts to feature new works by its members.
European Paintings 1700-1800 - Section S204 (8) English Paintings between 1700 and 1800 The early 1700s marked the dawn of the great age of English painting. Native artists excelled in two genres, portraiture and landscape; both appealed to the taste of noble and wealthy middle-class patrons.
European Paintings 1860-1900 - Section W204 (17) Impressionism - between 1860 and 1900 Many of the most celebrated impressionist and postimpressionist artists -Monet, Renoir, Manet, Pissarro, van Gogh, Cézanne and Degas - were seen as radical innovators and risk takers in their own days.
