The Art Institute of Chicago part 3

Madame de Pastoret and Her Son by David over looking Antonio Canova's Bust of Paris, 1809

A few years ago I was on a cross country drive from Baltimore to San Diego and stopped in Chicago for a few days along the way.The Art Institute of Chicago is a world famous museum and one of the top ten major museums in America. I had one hour to run thru this world famous museum. I ended up missing the American collection of art but I did see the European collection.




Today we are exploring European painting and sculpture & decorative arts. The museums collection is considered one of the finest in the world. The collection of European painting contains more than 3,500 works dating from the 12th through the mid-20th century. Holdings include a rare group of 15th-century Spanish, Italian and Northern European paintings, highlights of European sculpture, and an important selection of 17th- and 18th-century paintings. Major Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works and classic Modern works are among its most significant holdings.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

Italian, 1708-1787

Don José Moñino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca, c. 1776

Gainsborough, Thomas

British, 1727-1788

Mrs. Philip Dupont, c. 1778

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Spanish, 1746–1828

Boy on a Ram, 1786/87

Antonio d'Este

Italian, 1754-1837

After a model by Antonio Canova

Italian, 1757-1822

Deposition, after 1800

Jean-Baptiste-François Desoria

French, 1758–1832

Portrait of Constance Pipelet, 1797

Manufacturer: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Designer: Charles Percier, 1764-1838

Painter: Gilbert Drouet, fl. late 18th-early 19th century

France, Sèvres

Londonderry Vase, 1813

Manufacturer: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Designer: Charles Percier, 1764-1838

Painter: Gilbert Drouet, fl. late 18th-early 19th century

France, Sèvres

Londonderry Vase, 1813

Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar

French, 1762-1834

Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia, 1790/93

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

Italian, 1708-1787

Peace and War, 1776

Jean-Antoine Houdon

French, 1741-1828

Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de Sérilly, Comtesse de Pange, 1780

Antonio Canova

Italian, 1757-1822

Head of Medusa, c. 1801

Baron Antoine Jean Gros

French, 1771-1835

Portrait of the Maistre Sisters, 1796

Antonio Canova

Italian, 1757-1822

Bust of Paris, 1809

Antonio Canova

Italian, 1757-1822

Bust of Paris, 1809

Antonio Canova

Italian, 1757-1822

Bust of Paris, 1809

Jacques Louis David

French, 1748–1825

Madame de Pastoret and Her Son, mid-1791/mid-1792

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

French, 1780-1867

Amédée-David, the Comte de Pastoret, 1823-26

John Philip Simpson

English, 1782–1847

The Captive Slave, 1827

Albert Schindler

Austrian, 1805-1861

Portrait of a Gardener and Horn Player in the Household of the Emperor Francis I, 1836

Johann Gottfried Schadow

German, 1764-1850

Foundry: Werner in Berlin, 1794/95-1842

Bust of Queen Luise of Prussia, modeled 1799, cast 1819/21

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Austrian, 1793-1865

The Actor Maximilian Korn in a Landscape, 1828

Louis-Léopold Boilly

French, 1761-1845

The Movings, 1822

Louis-Léopold Boilly

French, 1761-1845

The Movings, 1822