The Courtauld Institute is offering a range of courses on the history of art and architecture, It is one of the academic establishments that make up the University of London. The Courtauld Gallery was established in 1932.as an integral part of the Courtauld Institute. Its collections now numbers some 520 paintings, 7000 drawings, 20000 prints and over 550 works of decorative art and sculptures, from the 1300 to 1970. On painting, it is particularly noticeable for its collection on the Impressionists.

1. The Courtauld Gallery
Somerset House, London
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A Bar at the Folies Bergere (Detail). 1881. Edouard Manet.

2. Daddi 1338

3. Attributed to Robert Campin. c1425

4. Attributed to Robert Campin. c1425
Sadness

5. Attributed to Robert Campin. c1425
The soldiers by the tomb.

6. Quinten Massys 1500
This painting by Massys is in the
National Galley, London

7. Bellini 1509

8. Parmigianino 1524
Parmigianino (1506-40) stayed in
Rome from 1524-27. The classical
building in the background appears
to be an evocation of one of the
sights of ancient Rom, the
Septizonium, an impressive ruin.

9. Lucas Cranach the Elder 1526
The painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder
was influence by Durer’s engrave, 1504.

10. Luttrell. 1550
Little is known about the painter of this
enigmatic portrait, despite the fact that he
painted for Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I.
Eworth is an anglicized Netherlandish name.

11. Bruegel 1561

12. Bruegel 1565
Jesus “he that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her”.

13. Titoretto & Domenico. c1578

14. Veronese 1580
Veronese’s most famous works,
enormous frescoes and canvases of
religious or mythological subjects,
celebrate the power and wealth of
Venice at the height of its fortunes.

15. Rubens 1608
Ruben’s paintings are well represented in
the gallery. Ruben set up a workshop in
Antwerp in 1908 to produce paintings for
his European wealthy patrons. One of the
artist who worked by Ruben was Van
Dyck.

16. Rubens 1611

17. Rubens 1613

18. Rubens 1630

19. Van Dyck. c1616

20. Cortona. c1640
Pietro Berretini da Cortona was the
artist who, with Gian Lorenzo
Bernini, most fully expressed the
self-confidence of Rome and the
Papacy as a great secular power in
Europe in the mid 17C.

21. Dobson. c1641
William Dobson was
a portraitist and one
of the first notable
English painters.

22. Loraine. 1642
Clause Loraine was one of the first French painter who specialised on landscape painting.

23. Lely. 1640s
Sir Peter Lely was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he
became the dominant portrait painter to the court.

24. Romney 1771
George Romney was the most
fashionable artist of his day,
painting many leading society
figures.

25. Raeburn 1798
Sir Henry Raeburn is Scotland’s first
significant portrait painter. He
served as Portrait Painter to King
George IV in Scotland.
Most known work. Dr R Walker Skating.

26. Goya. 1798
Son Francisco de Saavedra was a liberal who
appointed Minister of Finance to Carlos IV.
Goya was a portrait painter who painted many
famous and wealthy Spanish, including a French
general and the portrait of the Duke of Wellington.

27. Turner. 1816

28. Turner. 1841

29. Renoir. 1874

30. Renoir. 1892

31. Renoir. 1908
Renoir ‘originally associated with the
impressionist movement. His early works
were typically impressionist snapshots of
real life, full of sparkling colour and light.
By the mid-80s however, he had broken
with the movement to apply a more
disciplined formal technique to portraits
and figure paintings.’ Encyclopaedia
Britannica.

32. Manet. 1874

33. Manet. 1881

34. Degas. 1874
“My chief interest in dancers lies in
rendering movement and painting pretty
clothes.” Degas.

35. Degas. 1895

36. Sisley 1877

37. Seurat 1883

38. Sisley. 1888
In the last slide Seurat was under the
influence of Impressionism. Later he
was the founder of the school of Neo-
impressionism, using contrasting
colours and tiny brushstrokes called
Pointillism (as on the left).

39. Monet. 1888

40. Gauguin. 1889
Gauguin is more commonly known
for his South-sea islands painting.

41. Van Gogh. 1889

42. Van Gogh. 1889
There are two versions of the this
paintings.

43. Cezanne. 1892
‘Cezanne is said to have formed the
bridge between late 19th century
Impressionism and the early 20th
century’s new line of artistic enquiry,
Cubism. Both Matisse and Picasso
are said to have remarked that
Cezanne “is the father of us all”’
Wikipedia ‘Paul Cezanne’

44. Toulouse-Lautrec 1892
Toulouse-Lautrec is well-known for its painting
on the night life of Paris.

45. Toulouse-Lautrec 1899
Toulouse-Lautrec created a series of
posters as advert

46. Modligiliant. c1915

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48. British Paintings

49. With over a thousand of paintings
in more than 10 countries.