Douarnenez in Sunshine
Maxime Maufra
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The Art Institute of Chicago holds 104 Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in the Paintale collection, including works by Maxime Maufra, David Dalhoff Neal, Thomas Fearnley, Martin Johnson Heade. Each painting page unpacks the symbolism, technique, and provenance of the work — turning a gallery visit, or a search for a single canvas, into a deeper encounter with the period.
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Interior of St. Mark's, Venice
David Dalhoff Neal
1333 likes63 comments
Pergola with Oranges
Thomas Fearnley
734 likes84 comments
Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth
Martin Johnson Heade
494 likes124 comments
After a Summer Shower
George Inness
887 likes17 comments
Summer in the Catskills
George Inness
1507 likes57 comments
The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy
John Singer Sargent
520 likes90 comments
Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)
John Singer Sargent
852 likes22 comments
Seventeenth-Century Interior
Charles Gifford Dyer
850 likes40 comments
Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefevre)
John Singer Sargent
761 likes91 comments
St. Cecilia
Antoine Wiertz
860 likes50 comments
On a Balcony
Mary Cassatt
1431 likes121 comments
The Crucifixion
Francisco de Zurbarán
1520 likes90 comments
Crucifixion
María Josefa Sánchez
1059 likes149 comments
Coast Scene, Bathers
James McNeill Whistler
1163 likes93 comments
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
David Teniers the YoungerAfter Paolo Veronese
642 likes112 comments
Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1122 likes72 comments
Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach
James McNeill Whistler
555 likes105 comments
Portrait of Isabella of Bourbon
Follower of Peter Paul Rubens
611 likes41 comments
Nicolas Rubens, the Artist's Son
Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens
409 likes139 comments
Still Life
Pieter Claesz
1491 likes21 comments
Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
Frans Snyders
1106 likes16 comments
Study Head of a Bearded Man
Frans Floris, I
976 likes46 comments
Marie de’ Medici
Frans Pourbus the Younger
1480 likes50 comments
Old Man Lighting a Pipe
Johann Carl Loth
1493 likes123 comments
Portrait of an Artist
Follower of Frans Hals
1440 likes30 comments
The Rommel-Pot Player
Workshop of Frans Hals
1445 likes15 comments
The Artist in His Studio
James McNeill Whistler
1123 likes73 comments
Portrait of a Lady of the Wentworth Family (Probably Jane Cheyne)
Hans Eworth
1514 likes144 comments
Violet and Silver—The Deep Sea
James McNeill Whistler
1152 likes62 comments
Alice
William Merritt Chase
961 likes131 comments
Landscape
Théodore Rousseau
1346 likes76 comments
Fishing Boats in a Calm
Jan van de Cappelle
1463 likes33 comments
Springtime
Théodore Rousseau
1345 likes75 comments
View of Saleve, near Geneva
Théodore Rousseau
874 likes64 comments
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Workshop of Veronese
546 likes96 comments
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels
Piero di Cosimo
1287 likes137 comments
Mary Magdalene
Moretto da Brescia
1134 likes104 comments
Allegory of Venus and Cupid
Imitator of Titian
592 likes22 comments
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Correggio
1457 likes27 comments
Eve
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1547 likes77 comments
Adam
Lucas Cranach the Elder
975 likes85 comments
The Herring Net
Winslow Homer
464 likes94 comments
Jupiter Rebuked by Venus
Abraham Janssens
1116 likes86 comments
The Capture of Samson
Peter Paul Rubens
941 likes11 comments
The Adoration of the Magi
Pietro della Vecchia
944 likes134 comments
Portrait of Philip IV
Workshop of Diego Velázquez
511 likes141 comments
Venus and Cupid
Luca Cambiaso
1367 likes57 comments
The Music Lesson
Jacob Ochtervelt
1303 likes13 comments
Travellers Arriving at an Inn
Pieter de Neyn
1457 likes27 comments
The Music Lesson
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
878 likes128 comments
Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints Sebastian, John the Evangelist, and Roch
Pasquale Ottino Italian
1565 likes95 comments
The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)
Frederic Remington
1034 likes44 comments
Ghost Dance (The Vision of Life)
Ralph Albert Blakelock
863 likes73 comments
Woman's Head
Albert Besnard
709 likes119 comments
Autumn Woods
George Inness
824 likes94 comments
The Assumption of the Virgin
El Greco
1565 likes115 comments
View of Delphi with a Procession
Claude Lorrain
593 likes83 comments
Distant View of Niagara Falls
Thomas Cole
919 likes129 comments
Helena Tromper Du Bois
Attributed to Anthony van Dyck
1436 likes26 comments
Isabella of Bourbon, Wife of Philip IV of Spain
Workshop of Diego Velázquez
1581 likes111 comments
The Apotheosis of the Hero
Follower of Peter Paul Rubens
409 likes79 comments
The Home of the Heron
George Inness
857 likes127 comments
An Elegant Company
Pieter Codde
1459 likes29 comments
A Marine
George Inness
1478 likes28 comments
Saint Francis
Peter Paul Rubens
444 likes114 comments
The Adoration of the Eucharist
Peter Paul Rubens
1337 likes127 comments
The Temptation of the Magdalene
Jacob Jordaens
741 likes71 comments
Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony)
John Singer Sargent
818 likes28 comments
Blasted Tree
Jasper Francis Cropsey
424 likes14 comments
Niagara Falls in Winter
Jasper Francis Cropsey American
411 likes21 comments
Near Newport
John Frederick Kensett American
942 likes132 comments
Diana and Actaeon
Jacopo Bassano
555 likes125 comments
Peach Blossoms
Winslow Homer
853 likes103 comments
The Nativity
Fra Bartolommeo
1420 likes50 comments
Portrait of a Young Girl
Attributed to Pieter Dubordieu
555 likes25 comments
Dead Birds and Shot Bags
Attributed to Pieter Boel
1123 likes33 comments
Tobias and the Angel
Pieter Mulier, II
1422 likes32 comments
Portrait of a Noblewoman Dressed in Mourning
Jacopo da Empoli
1466 likes16 comments
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Christ Child
Girolamo da Carpi
1515 likes85 comments
Portrait of a Lady
Follower of Titian
825 likes35 comments
Tarquin and Lucretia
Tintoretto
1339 likes29 comments
Saint Helen Testing the True Cross
Tintoretto
805 likes15 comments
Venus and Mars with Cupid and the Three Graces in a Landscape
Domenico Tintoretto
1455 likes45 comments
Saint Anthony Appearing to a Sick Man
Follower of Domenico Robusti, called Tintoretto Italian
1183 likes93 comments
The Essex Canal
Albert Pinkham Ryder American
1190 likes20 comments
Study of Rocks in Pearson's Ravine
Asher B. Durand American
440 likes70 comments
Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1035 likes125 comments
Time, Death and Judgment
George Frederick Watts
706 likes36 comments
Portrait of a Gentleman
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio
956 likes106 comments
Portrait of Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485-1540)
Attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger
929 likes139 comments
The Crucifixion
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1567 likes137 comments
Adoration of the Magi
Jan van Scorel
1158 likes88 comments
Landscape with Tournament and Hunters
Jan van Scorel
1458 likes128 comments
Fishing Boats off an Estuary
Jan van Goyen
1373 likes83 comments
Polycrates and the Fisherman
Salvator Rosa
1336 likes26 comments
Judith
Jan Sanders van Hemessen
1485 likes35 comments
Christ Carrying the Cross
Attributed to Hans Maler
734 likes144 comments
The Resurrection
Cecco del Caravaggio
918 likes148 comments
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Guido Reni
687 likes77 comments
The Entombment
Guercino
1278 likes88 comments
Polycrates' Crucifixion
Salvator Rosa
1333 likes23 comments
Old Man with a Gold Chain
Rembrandt van Rijn
1560 likes10 comments
Young Woman at an Open Half-Door
Rembrandt van RijnWorkshop of Rembrandt van Rijn
1275 likes125 comments
About the Art Institute of Chicago’s Renaissance and Baroque collection
The Art Institute of Chicago’s holdings of Renaissance and Baroque painting in Chicago sit among the most significant surviving collections of pre-modern European art. The works in this group — 104 paintings — span the themes of daily life, portrait, tragedy & death, landscape, power & politics, love & romance, religion & mythology and the hands of artists from Maxime Maufra, David Dalhoff Neal, Thomas Fearnley, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness.
If you’re planning a visit, use this page as a starting list of the must-see paintings. If you’re researching from a desk, each painting page goes deeper than a museum label: the patron, the symbolism a 17th-century viewer would have recognised, the technique under the surface, and where the painting fits in Art Institute of Chicago’s longer history.