Detroit Institute of Arts - Selections From The Permanent Collection

Selections From The Permanent Collection

  • Jan Van Eyck, Saint Jerome in His Study, 1442

  • Madonna and Child, Benozzo Gozzoli, c. 1460

  • Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl, Crucifixtion, 1485

  • Lucas Cranach the Elder, Saint Christopher, 1518–20

  • Pieter Brueghel the Elder The Wedding Dance, 1566

  • Diego Velazquez, Portrait of a Nobleman, 1623

  • Rembrandt van Rijn, The Visitation, 1640

  • Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, The Jewish Cemetery, 1657

  • John Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

  • John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1782

  • Edgar Degas, Violinist and Young Woman, 1870–72

  • Paul Cezanne, Bathers, 1879

  • Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887

  • Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888

  • Paul Gaugin, Portrait of the Artist with the Idol, 1893

  • Original Dawson Howdy Doody, Volkan Yuksel

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