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Style galleriesPaintings of the 19th century

Paintings of the 19th century

Artist: Robert Bolling Brandegee, Sitter: Sarah Porter, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Sunrise, by George Inness, 1887
Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.
A work made of oil on canvas.
Une Martyre (Saint Thechla), by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1891
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), by John Singer Sargent, 1883–84
Landscape, by Jasper F. Cropsey, before 1918

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

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

Section 1, north wall

  1. 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
  2. Sunrise, by George Inness, 1887
    SunriseGeorge Inness, 1887Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.
    Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887–88Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 1, south wall

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    A Woman at the Élysée Montmartre (Femme à l’Élysée Montmartre)Louis Anquetin, 1888Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  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. Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), by John Singer Sargent, 1883–84
    Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)John Singer Sargent, 1883–84Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. Landscape, by Jasper F. Cropsey, before 1918
    LandscapeJasper F. Cropsey, before 1918Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Section 2, south wall

  1. A wide creek winds between a tree-lined bank to our left and hazy mountains to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. The riverbank curves deeply like a backward capital letter B. Marshy grasses grow in tufts, and palm and other trees grow in a grove to our left. One brown-skinned person wearing only a white cloth around the hips carries a long stick near the shoreline. Dabs of brown and muted dark pink suggest other people farther along the riverside. Tree-covered boulders jut into the creek from our right. A band of rocky, mountains are smoky mauve-pink across the rightmost two-thirds of the horizon, which comes a third of the way up the composition. The butter-yellow sun is low on the horizon to our right, peeking through the grove of palm trees. The light pours across the placid surface of the creek, creating a soft yellow streak next to the reflection of the mountain ridge. A few heather-pink clouds drift across the pale turquoise sky. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “C. Pizarro. 1856. Paris.”
    A Creek in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands)Camille Pissarro, 1856Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  2. A work made of oil on paper, mounted on canvas.
    Venice Seen from the Public GardenJean Jules Antoine Lecomte du Noüy, 1873Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.
    Arlésiennes (Mistral)Paul Gauguin, 1888Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  4. 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

Section 2, north wall

  1. Artist: William Thomas Mathews, Sitter: Benjamin Harrison, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Benjamin HarrisonWilliam Thomas Mathews, 1899Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  2. Painting of centaur with harp, in water, surrounded by mermaids and mermen.
    In the SeaArnold Böcklin, 1883Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Newburyport Meadows, by Martin Johnson Heade, ca. 1876–81
    Newburyport MeadowsMartin Johnson Heade, ca. 1876–81Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Section 3, north wall

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, SnowCamille Pissarro, 1879Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. The Gulf Stream, by Winslow Homer, 1899; reworked by 1906
    The Gulf StreamWinslow Homer, 1899; reworked by 1906Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art