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The 19th century

Works made in the 19th century, anywhere in the world.

731 works · hang 6747 ·

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

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Section 1, north wall

  1. The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), by Ferdinand Hodler, 1896
    The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)Ferdinand Hodler, 1896Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. Somali Man, by Antonion Zeno Shindler, ca. 1893
    Somali ManAntonion Zeno Shindler, ca. 1893Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  3. Study of a Courtier, by Carlo Randanini, 1877
    Study of a CourtierCarlo Randanini, 1877Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Section 1, south wall

  1. Mount Sainte-Victoire, by Paul Cézanne, c. 1904
    Mount Sainte-VictoirePaul Cézanne, c. 1904Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. A work made of oil on canvas.
    The Bird CatcherThomas Couture, c. 1857Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. The painting depicts a rural landscape at sunset or sunrise. The horizon is slightly above the center, showing distant pale-pink and purple mountains against the sky. Closest to us is an area with dark green bushes and vegetation, leading to a lighter green field surrounded by green-and-brown trees. The palette is warm and earthy, with greens and browns in the bottom transitioning to purples and pinks in the distance. The sky is a pale-yellow color that fades into light blue towards the top left corner, and faint yellow and gray clouds drift across it.
    Peaceful ValleyAlexander Helwig Wyant, c. 1872Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  4. The image displays curved and angular lines creating an abstract composition hinting at humanoid shapes and possible vegetation or trees. The lines suggest motion and activity, with shapes resembling drums and sticks scattered around. The overall impression is of a gathering or event, with figures depicted standing or moving, along with lines indicating movement or sound waves from musical instruments.
    End of the March [recto]Winslow Homer, 1862Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Section 2, south wall

  1. Artist: John Wesley Jarvis, Sitter: Joseph Delaplaine, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Joseph DelaplaineJohn Wesley Jarvis, January 1819Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  2. Green Parrot, c. 1820
    Green ParrotUnrecorded Indian maker, c. 1820Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775), by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, ca. 1810
    Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775)Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, ca. 1810Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. We look down onto a landscape where several laundry lines have been draped mostly with white sheets or cloth to dry in a flat, grassy yard in front of a rustic house and a distant town in this horizontal painting. The scene is created entirely with thick, visible brushstrokes that creates a sense of texture on the canvas’s surface and makes many details difficult to make out. The forms of at least three women wearing skirts hang laundry out along the lines, and a person wearing trousers tends to a flat piece of green ground near the lower left corner. A few pieces of white cloth have been draped over the wooden fence that runs along the bottom edge of the canvas. A dove-gray cart with wooden carriage wheels rests, tipped forward, at the center of the laundry lines. To our right and just beyond the laundry lines, a two-story ivory and slate-blue house with a gray peaked roof sits behind a grove of emerald-green trees. The laundry field and the grassy plane beyond is painted with a pale celery green with long, horizontal strokes. Dabs of moss green and a white streak interrupt the field in the distance. Beyond that, touches of steel and silvery-gray paint suggest smokestacks and smoke in a town along the horizon, which comes about three-quarters of the way up this composition. A few patches of vivid blue sky peek through a screen of shell-pink and cream-white clouds above. The artist signed the work in brick-red paint in the lower left corner, “Berthe Morisot.”
    Hanging the Laundry out to DryBerthe Morisot, 1875Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Section 2, north wall

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    The Races at LongchampÉdouard Manet, 1866Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Untitled (landscape with rocks), by Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1898
    Untitled (landscape with rocks)Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1898Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  3. Artist: Robert Bolling Brandegee, Sitter: Sarah Porter, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Sarah PorterRobert Bolling Brandegee, 1896Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Section 3, north wall

  1. Foreign Family with Wife Making Clothes (Gaikokujin ifuku shitate no zu), by Utagawa Yoshikazu, 1860
    Foreign Family with Wife Making Clothes (Gaikokujin ifuku shitate no zu)Utagawa Yoshikazu, 1860Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. A work made of graphite, on tan wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper.
    Sheet of Sketches: Cavalry Battles and Mounted SoldiersJean Louis André Théodore Géricault, 1813/14Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago