Romanticism and Realism







Works in this room
Storms, ruins and feeling from about 1780, then ordinary people and working lives painted as they were, from the 1840s on.
Section 1, north wall

The Knapp ChildrenSamuel Lovett Waldo, ca. 1833–34Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, MarylandFrederick Kemmelmeyer, after 1795Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
MusidoraThomas Sully, 1813–35Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 1, south wall

Rookwood PotteryGeorge Gibson, 1886Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 
An Orange Note: Sweet ShopJames McNeill Whistler, 1883 or 1884Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution 
Newburyport MeadowsMartin Johnson Heade, ca. 1876–81Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
John Quincy Adams WardHenry Augustus Loop, 1863Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 2, south wall

Peaceable KingdomEdward Hicks, ca. 1830–32Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Mrs. Mayer and DaughterAmmi Phillips, 1835–40Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Variations in Violet and Grey—Market Place, DieppeJames McNeill Whistler, 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Approaching Thunder StormMartin Johnson Heade, 1859Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 2, north wall

The Falls of NiagaraEdward Hicks, ca. 1825Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)John Singer Sargent, 1883–84Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Luman ReedAsher Brown Durand, 1835Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 3, north wall

The Music LessonJohn George Brown, 1870Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis"Asher Brown Durand, 1850Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art