Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Highlights From The European Collection

Highlights From The European Collection

  • William Blake, Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve' (Illustration to 'Paradise Lost'), 1808, pen; watercolor on paper

  • John Constable, The Stour-Valley with the Church of Dedham, 1814

  • J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship 1840, oil on canvas

  • Jean-François Millet, The Sower, 1850

  • Edouard Manet, Street Singer, 1862

  • Edouard Manet, The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1867

  • Edgar Degas, Racehorses at Longchamp, 1873–1875

  • Madame Cézanne in a red armchair, 1877

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Bougival, 1882–1883, (woman at left is painter Suzanne Valadon)

  • Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (1841–1903), 1888

  • Claude Monet, The Fort of Antibes, 1888

  • La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin), 1889

  • Claude Monet, Haystacks, (sunset), 1890–1891

  • Paul Cézanne, Self-portrait, 1898-1900

  • Claude Monet, Branch of the Seine near Giverny, 1897

  • Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916

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