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The 19th century

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

731 works · hang 965 ·

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

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Section 1, north wall

  1. Artist: Thomas Hicks, Sitter: Samuel Jones Tilden, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Samuel Jones TildenThomas Hicks, c. 1870Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  2. We look out onto a landscape with low, grassy hills to the left, a lake to the right, and a brick building in the center distance below a sky filled with towering white clouds in this horizontal painting. A wooden fence closer to us crosses the landscape from the lower left corner and disappears where the land slopes down to meet the water at the center of the painting. Several black and white cows graze in the field beyond the fence to our left. Two men in a wooden boat pull in nets on the lake to our right near a pair of swans. The lake crosses the composition in the near distance, disappearing into a culvert farther back. A donkey pulls a small carriage with two people near a bridge that crosses the lake in the distance to our left. The brick manor house is visible through a break in the full, deep green trees that line the horizon, which comes halfway up the composition. The clouds cast noticeable shadows in the brightly sunlit scene.
    Wivenhoe Park, EssexJohn Constable, 1816Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  3. Dutch Woman and Child (Seisha ikoku jinbutsu Oranda fujin aijidō no zu), by Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide, 1860
    Dutch Woman and Child (Seisha ikoku jinbutsu Oranda fujin aijidō no zu)Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide, 1860Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Section 1, south wall

  1. Artist: Abraham Archibald Anderson, Sitter: Thomas Alva Edison, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Thomas Alva EdisonAbraham Archibald Anderson, 1890Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  2. A work made of oil on composition board.
    Notre Dame de ParisJean-François Rafaëlli, c. 1890Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. We look across and down into a valley with a person sitting near a tall tree and a train puffing smoke beyond, all enclosed by a band of mountains in the distance in this horizontal landscape painting. Closest to us, several broken, jagged tree stumps are spaced across the painting’s width. A little distance away and to our left, the person wears a yellow, broad-brimmed hat, red vest, and gray pants. He reclines propped on his left elbow near a walking path beside a tall, slender tree with golden leaves. The green meadow stretching in front of him is dotted with tree stumps cut close to the ground. Beyond the meadow, puffs of white smoke trail behind a long steam locomotive that crosses a bridge spanning a tree-filled ravine, headed to our left. The ravine creates a diagonal line across the canvas, moving subtly away from us to our left. The train has climbed out of the valley, away from a cluster of brick-red buildings. The most prominent structure is a train roundhouse, a large building with a high, domed roof to the right of the tracks. Smoke rises from chimneys on long, warehouse-like buildings, and a steeple and smaller structures suggest a church and homes to our left. Hazy in the distance, a row of mountains lines the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. The sky above deepens from pale, shell pink over the mountains to watery, pale blue above. The artist signed the work in tiny letters in the lower left corner: “G. Inness.”
    The Lackawanna ValleyGeorge Inness, c. 1856Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Section 2, south wall

  1. The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse), by Albert Pinkham Ryder, c. 1896–1908
    The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)Albert Pinkham Ryder, c. 1896–1908Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. The image displays a man in a portrait from the waist up, in a three-quarter view. He is facing slightly to the right and looking into the distance with a calm expression. The man has fair skin, light reddish-brown hair, sideburns, a defined nose, and a slightly upturned chin. He is wearing a black double-breasted coat with a high collar, a dark waistcoat, a white shirt, and a medal on his chest with an insignia and ribbon. The background is plain and deep brown.
    Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of HertfordThomas Lawrence, c. 1822/1823Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  3. Emma Van Name, by Joshua Johnson, ca. 1805
    Emma Van NameJoshua Johnson, ca. 1805Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. Woman in a Red Dress, by Anna Claypoole Peale, 1821
    Woman in a Red DressAnna Claypoole Peale, 1821Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Section 2, north wall

  1. The Third-Class Carriage, by Honoré Daumier, 1864
    The Third-Class CarriageHonoré Daumier, 1864Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. Peter Bounetheau, by Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, ca. 1820
    Peter BounetheauHenry Brintnell Bounetheau, ca. 1820Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  3. A work made of oil on panel.
    Colonnade and Gardens of the Medici PalaceStyle of Hubert Robert, After 1870Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  4. A work made of oil on vellum.
    At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1888Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 3, north wall

  1. Diving Cormorant, by Otto H. Bacher, 1900
    Diving CormorantOtto H. Bacher, 1900Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. "King Lear," Act I, Scene I, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898
    "King Lear," Act I, Scene IEdwin Austin Abbey, 1898Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art