Floor plan

Style galleriesPaintings of the 19th century

Paintings of the 19th century

The Veteran in a New Field, by Winslow Homer, 1865
Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman stands close to us with a red schoolhouse in the distance under a sunset sky in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us, but she turns her head to look off to the left with light brown eyes. She has a short, straight nose, full pink lips, and a round face. Her blond hair is pulled up under a round white hat layered with ruffles, which lies like a pancake over the top of her head. Her white dress is vertically striped with thin rust-red lines and has a long-sleeved, tight-fitting bodice and a long skirt. A dark gray belt is cinched around her narrow waist, and she wears a black, lacy ruffle around her neck. The woman’s arms hang by her sides, and she holds two paperback-sized books in her left hand, to our right. An earth-brown lawn stretches back to the schoolhouse, which has crimson-red walls, a chimney, and a dark gray roof. Three forms painted with a few streaks of dark or light gray or topaz blue suggest people standing near the door of the schoolhouse. Trees and a grassy lawn beyond the building are loosely painted with blended strokes. The sky is shaded pale lemon yellow and light peach with touches of rose pink. The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, “HOMER 1873.”
Portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Carteret-Hardy, by Thomas Lawrence, 1801
Radicofane, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1841
Watercolor
Kalorama Cottage, by John Ferguson Weir, ca. 1860
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, 1836

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

Paintings made in the 19th century, from every museum.

First room, north wall

  1. The Veteran in a New Field, by Winslow Homer, 1865
    The Veteran in a New FieldWinslow Homer, 1865Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman stands close to us with a red schoolhouse in the distance under a sunset sky in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us, but she turns her head to look off to the left with light brown eyes. She has a short, straight nose, full pink lips, and a round face. Her blond hair is pulled up under a round white hat layered with ruffles, which lies like a pancake over the top of her head. Her white dress is vertically striped with thin rust-red lines and has a long-sleeved, tight-fitting bodice and a long skirt. A dark gray belt is cinched around her narrow waist, and she wears a black, lacy ruffle around her neck. The woman’s arms hang by her sides, and she holds two paperback-sized books in her left hand, to our right. An earth-brown lawn stretches back to the schoolhouse, which has crimson-red walls, a chimney, and a dark gray roof. Three forms painted with a few streaks of dark or light gray or topaz blue suggest people standing near the door of the schoolhouse. Trees and a grassy lawn beyond the building are loosely painted with blended strokes. The sky is shaded pale lemon yellow and light peach with touches of rose pink. The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, “HOMER 1873.”
    The Red School HouseWinslow Homer, 1873Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  3. Portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Carteret-Hardy, by Thomas Lawrence, 1801
    Portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Carteret-HardyThomas Lawrence, 1801Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

First room, south wall

  1. Radicofane, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1841
    RadicofaneMiner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1841Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  2. Watercolor
    Pink Note–Shelling PeasJames McNeill Whistler, 1882-1884Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
  3. Kalorama Cottage, by John Ferguson Weir, ca. 1860
    Kalorama CottageJohn Ferguson Weir, ca. 1860Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  4. View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, 1836
    View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The OxbowThomas Cole, 1836Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Second room, south wall

  1. The Valley of Wyoming, by Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1865
    The Valley of WyomingJasper Francis Cropsey, 1865Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, by Thomas Eakins, 1873
    The Biglin Brothers Turning the StakeThomas Eakins, 1873Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Second room, north wall

  1. In the Waves (Dans les Vagues), by Paul Gauguin, 1889
    In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)Paul Gauguin, 1889Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. Une Martyre (Saint Thechla), by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1891
    Une Martyre (Saint Thechla)Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1891Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  3. George Washington, by Edward Dalton Marchant, 1843-1844
    George WashingtonEdward Dalton Marchant, 1843-1844Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  4. 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

Third room, north wall

  1. Burning Oil Well at Night, near Rouseville, Pennsylvania, by James Hamilton, ca. 1861
    Burning Oil Well at Night, near Rouseville, PennsylvaniaJames Hamilton, ca. 1861Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  2. Roses in a Vase, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1890
    Roses in a VasePierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1890Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. The Lovers, by James Tissot, 1872
    The LoversJames Tissot, 1872Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art