Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collection Highlights - Paintings

Paintings

  • Hieronymus Bosch Epiphany, c. 1475-1480

  • El Greco, Pietà, 1571-1576

  • Peter Paul Rubens, Prometheus Bound, 1611-12

  • Thomas Gainsborough River Landscape, 1768-1770

  • J. M. W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 1835

  • Édouard Manet, The Battle of The Alabama and Kearsarge, 1864

  • Édouard Manet, The Departure of Steam Folkestone, 1869

  • Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875

  • Thomas Eakins, William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of Schuylkill River, 1876-1877

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Large Bathers, 1887

  • Vincent Van Gogh, Vase with twelve Sunflowers, Arles, January 1889

  • Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, The Dance at Moulin Rouge, 1889-90

  • Claude Monet, Poplars (Autumn), 1891

  • Thomas Eakins, The Concert Singer, 1890-1892

  • Claude Monet, Japanese Bridge and Water Lilies, c.1899

  • Paul Cézanne, The Bathers, 1898-1905

  • Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 1912

  • Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23

  • Theo van Doesburg, Composition, 1929

  • Salvador Dalí, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936

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