Douarnenez in Sunshine
Maxime Maufra
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The Art Institute of Chicago holds 256 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
Apollo Granting Phaeton Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun
Johann Michael Rottmayr
1377 likes127 comments
Diana and Endymion
Johann Michael Rottmayr
526 likes56 comments
Jove Casts His Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants
Johann Michael Rottmayr
498 likes28 comments
Mercury Rescues the Disguised Io after Beheading Argus
Johann Michael Rottmayr
527 likes57 comments
Still Life with Ostrich Egg Cup and the Whitfield Heirlooms
Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraeten
782 likes132 comments
Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan
Johann Michael Rottmayr
523 likes53 comments
Portrait of a Lady
Frans Hals
520 likes90 comments
The Annunciation
Frans Francken II
1186 likes116 comments
Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain
Adriaen van der SpeltFrans van Mieris
742 likes132 comments
Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond
Jacob van Ruisdael
1127 likes57 comments
The Adoration of the Christ Child
Jacob Cornelisz. van OostsanenWorkshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen
441 likes111 comments
York Harbor, Coast of Maine
Martin Johnson Heade
608 likes118 comments
Portrait of Thomas Bulwer
Gerard van Soest
1102 likes32 comments
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Felice Ficherelli
559 likes109 comments
The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens
1047 likes77 comments
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Peter Paul Rubens
606 likes16 comments
St. Albert of Louvain
Peter Paul Rubens
1061 likes11 comments
Saint Romanus of Antioch and Saint Barulas
Francisco de Zurbarán
1066 likes36 comments
Man with a Ruff
Follower of Anthony van Dyck
1120 likes70 comments
Head of an Apostle
Follower of Jacob Jordaens
532 likes42 comments
Kitchen Scene
Diego Velázquez
1161 likes91 comments
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
Diego Velázquez
1548 likes138 comments
Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation
El Greco
1251 likes41 comments
Saint Martin and the Beggar
El Greco
406 likes16 comments
The Feast in the House of Simon
El GrecoWorkshop of El Greco
645 likes35 comments
Flowers and Fruit in a Porcelain Bowl
Juan de Zurbarán
1577 likes107 comments
Ecce Agnus Dei
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
1464 likes14 comments
Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
Nicolas Poussin
1301 likes71 comments
Panthea, Cyrus, and Araspas
Laurent de La Hyre
1458 likes28 comments
The Adoration of the Magi
Workshop of Cornelis Engebrechtsz.
1372 likes82 comments
Théodore Géricault on His Deathbed
Charles Emile Callande de Champmartin
582 likes12 comments
Cupid Chastised
Bartolomeo Manfredi
1597 likes27 comments
Venus and Cupid
Alessandro Turchi
1014 likes24 comments
The Temptation of Saint Jerome
Giorgio Vasari
684 likes14 comments
Landscape with the Penitent Saint Jerome
Belgian; Antwerp
1339 likes49 comments
New England Scenery
Thomas Cole
648 likes58 comments
A Friendly Warning
Thomas Hicks American
499 likes109 comments
Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise
Thomas Birch American, born England
861 likes131 comments
Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower)
Thomas Doughty American
1116 likes146 comments
Apollo and Marsyas
Hans Thoma
936 likes46 comments
Study for "William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River"
Thomas Eakins
1096 likes46 comments
View of Cotopaxi
Frederic Edwin Church
1124 likes54 comments
A Mexican Vaquero
Frederic Remington
1058 likes68 comments
The Mexican Major
Frederic Remington
1032 likes42 comments
Historians of the Tribe
Frederic Remington
1056 likes66 comments
Ceremony of the Fastest Horse
Frederic Remington
547 likes57 comments
The Fire Eater Raised His Arms to the Thunder Bird
Frederic Remington
542 likes52 comments
Slave Market
Frederic Remington
1057 likes67 comments
I Will Tell the White Man
Frederic Remington
546 likes56 comments
How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago
Frederic Remington
1063 likes73 comments
Mountain Brook
Albert Bierstadt
1095 likes25 comments
First and Best Camp of the Trip
Frederic Remington
541 likes51 comments
Nothing But Cheerful Looks Followed the Bat
Frederic Remington
545 likes55 comments
Rushing Red Lodges Passed through the Line
Frederic Remington
543 likes53 comments
Paddling the Wounded British Officer
Frederic Remington
539 likes49 comments
The Interpreter Waved at the Youth
Frederic Remington
571 likes81 comments
This Was a Fatal Embarkation
Frederic Remington
544 likes54 comments
Portrait of Emmanuel Rio
Albert Schindler
1419 likes49 comments
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Georges Seurat
1031 likes81 comments
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte
1280 likes130 comments
Water Lilies
Claude Monet
674 likes144 comments
Cows in a Pond at Sunset
Sanford Robinson Gifford
941 likes111 comments
Kauterskill Clove, Catskill Mountains
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1512 likes82 comments
The Valley of Arconville
Theodore Robinson
918 likes68 comments
Rocky Coast
John Frederick Kensett
1121 likes11 comments
Lights of Other Days
John Frederick Peto
1372 likes102 comments
A Lamplight Study: Herr Joachim
George Frederick Watts
705 likes35 comments
On the Bank
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1068 likes18 comments
Early Morning, Tarpon Springs
George Inness
852 likes122 comments
Catskill Mountains
George Inness
547 likes117 comments
The Old Mill
George Inness
1049 likes39 comments
Crossing the Ford
George Inness
857 likes47 comments
The Mill Pond
George Inness
1488 likes98 comments
A Silver Morning
George Inness
1340 likes10 comments
James William Wallack
Charles Robert Leslie American, born England
882 likes132 comments
Moonrise
George Inness
764 likes34 comments
The Lonely Farm, Nantucket
George Inness
879 likes89 comments
Landscape, Sunset
George Inness
799 likes69 comments
The Sisters
George Inness
610 likes100 comments
The Storm
George Inness
1218 likes128 comments
Afterglow
George Inness
681 likes31 comments
Threatening
George Inness
828 likes98 comments
The Moon at Night
George Inness
794 likes64 comments
Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket
Eastman Johnson
586 likes136 comments
Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan
Joshua Johnson
889 likes39 comments
Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl)
John Singer Sargent
1183 likes93 comments
Venetian Glass Workers
John Singer Sargent
618 likes48 comments
Thistles
John Singer Sargent
1119 likes149 comments
Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d'Hiver
John Singer Sargent
1184 likes94 comments
Mrs. Charles Deering (Marion Denison Whipple)
John Singer Sargent
938 likes108 comments
Study of Two Bedouins
John Singer Sargent
1118 likes148 comments
Water Carriers on the Nile
John Singer Sargent
597 likes47 comments
The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt
1371 likes81 comments
After the Bullfight
Mary Cassatt
1461 likes51 comments
Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
James McNeill Whistler
1335 likes85 comments
Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy
James McNeill Whistler
936 likes146 comments
James McNeill Whistler
Walter Greaves
1516 likes106 comments
Trouville (Grey and Green, the Silver Sea)
James McNeill Whistler
557 likes107 comments
New England Headlands
Childe Hassam
1305 likes115 comments
Bailey's Beach, Newport, R.I.
Childe Hassam
640 likes70 comments
New York Street
Childe Hassam
1009 likes119 comments
The Little Pond, Appledore
Childe Hassam
466 likes76 comments
El Zocodover, Toledo, Spain
Childe Hassam
1529 likes139 comments
A City Park
William Merritt Chase
1149 likes99 comments
Wind-Swept Sands
William Merritt Chase
1004 likes54 comments
At Mouquin's
William Glackens
419 likes149 comments
William Bonham
William Bonnell American
1160 likes30 comments
Dorothea and Francesca
Cecilia Beaux
1240 likes130 comments
Icebound
John Henry Twachtman
1222 likes72 comments
The White Bridge
John Henry Twachtman
436 likes66 comments
Croquet Scene
Winslow Homer
653 likes43 comments
Mount Washington
Winslow Homer
727 likes17 comments
Saint Jerome in Penitence
Master of the Lille Adoration
1322 likes72 comments
Coast of Maine
Winslow Homer
881 likes91 comments
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
Thomas Eakins
1011 likes141 comments
Riter Fitzgerald
Thomas Eakins
1033 likes23 comments
Love of Winter
George Wesley Bellows
759 likes49 comments
Herself
Robert Henri
593 likes23 comments
Young Woman in Black
Robert Henri
1149 likes19 comments
Himself
Robert Henri
590 likes20 comments
The Fountains
Hubert Robert
442 likes72 comments
The Old Temple
Hubert Robert
466 likes96 comments
Bar-room Scene
William Sidney Mount
1041 likes31 comments
Fish
Shepard Alonzo Mount American
439 likes49 comments
A Mounted Officer
Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille
1375 likes105 comments
Self-Portrait
Eastman Johnson
833 likes103 comments
Major-General Henry Dearborn
Gilbert Stuart
489 likes139 comments
Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.
Charles Willson Peale
553 likes43 comments
John Nicholson
Charles Willson Peale
554 likes44 comments
Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c.
Raphaelle Peale
891 likes21 comments
Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst
James Peale
471 likes21 comments
Abigail Inskeep Bradford
Rembrandt Peale
883 likes13 comments
Olivia Simes Morris
James Peale
1517 likes47 comments
Samuel Fisher Bradford
Rembrandt Peale
1137 likes67 comments
Portrait of a Woman
Anna Claypoole Peale
728 likes138 comments
Landscape
Jean Charles Cazin
1407 likes137 comments
Box with Painted Lid
Hudson River School American, mid 19th cen.
649 likes99 comments
Looking upon the River
Julie Hart Beers
1384 likes34 comments
October Day
Jean Charles Cazin
1405 likes135 comments
Autumn River Scene, The Brook
David Bates
1242 likes112 comments
Self-Portrait
Walter Shirlaw
972 likes82 comments
Wooded Landscape
Gustave Courbet
534 likes44 comments
The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh
1579 likes129 comments
Flower Girl in Holland
George Hitchcock American
1054 likes124 comments
The Coast of Labrador
William Bradford
552 likes142 comments
The Song of the Lark
Jules Breton
1274 likes124 comments
Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
799 likes29 comments
Unfinished Study of Sheep
Constant Troyon
1341 likes71 comments
The Basket of Apples
Paul Cezanne
1398 likes108 comments
Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
529 likes139 comments
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet
650 likes120 comments
The Golden Age
Edward John Poynter
1433 likes23 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 — 256 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.