The Collection: Paintings

The Courtauld Gallery houses one of the finest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world. Formed by the pioneering collector Samuel Courtauld, the collection offers an array of outstanding works charting the development of modern French painting from Monet and Renoir to Seurat and Gauguin.

Here the visitor can discover world-famous masterpieces such as van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Manet’s great last painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and an extensive group of outstanding canvases by Cézanne. A further room is dedicated to paintings, drawings and bronzes by Degas.

Selected paintings from the collection:

• La Loge by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1874)
  
• A Bar at the Folie-Bergère by Edouard Manet (1882)
  
• The Montagne Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cézanne (c.1887)
• Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear by Vincent Van Gogh (1889)
  
• The Card Players by Paul Cézanne (c.1892-5)
  
• Lac d'Annecy by Paul Cézanne (1896)

Featured movieS


Impressionists and Post Impressionists
With Dr Caroline Campbell, Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings.

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Renoir's La Loge
Looking in detail at Renoir's La Loge with Professor John House.

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IN FOCUS ON PAINTINGS
Looking in detail at Cézanne's Montagne Sainte Victoire with Professor John House.

Watch the movie [2:15 min]