Selections From The European Collection
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Lorenzo di Niccolò, Saint Lawrence Buried in Saint Stephen's Tomb, 1410–1414, tempera and tooled gold on poplar, 33 × 36 cm
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Sano di Pietro, Triptych of Madonna with Child, St. James and St. John the Evangelist, ca. 1460 and 1462
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Eugène Delacroix, Desdemona Cursed by her Father (Desdemona maudite par son père), c. 1850-1854
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Gustave Courbet, The Edge of the Pool, 1867
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Edgar Degas, Portrait de Mlle Eugénie Fiocre, 1867-1868
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Alfred Sisley, Flood at Moret (Inondation à Moret), 1879
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Gustave Caillebotte, Apple Tree in Bloom (Pommier en fleurs), c. 1885
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Jules Breton, Fin du travail (The End of the Working Day), c.1886-1887
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Claude Monet, The Church at Vernon, 1894
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Claude Monet, Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil), 1903
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Claude Monet, The Doge's Palace (Le Palais ducal), 1908
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André Derain, Landscape in Provence (Paysage de Provence) (c. 1908)
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