Our virtual tour uses a photographic technique to show The Courtauld Gallery and our collection in exceptional close-up quality.
You can roam each room of the Gallery, and zoom in to look closely at masterpieces from our collection, from individual brush strokes to the texture of the paint. Our permanent collection is subject to change and some pieces might be on loan to other galleries.
Scroll down to explore our virtual tours from both current and past exhibitions. If you have any enquires, get in touch at galleryinfo@courtauld.ac.uk.
Monet and London: Views of the Thames
Some of Claude Monet’s most remarkable Impressionist paintings were made not in France, but in London. Explore Monet’s Thames series – depicting Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament – full of evocative atmosphere, mysterious light, and radiant colour, brought together for the first time 120 years after their inaugural exhibition.
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Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads
Experience a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful, large-scale drawings by Frank Auerbach (born 1931), presented together for the first time at The Courtauld Gallery.
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Permanent Collection
The Courtauld’s much-loved permanent collection ranges from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, including masterpieces such as Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1883), Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) and the most significant collection of works by Cézanne in the UK.
Located in the magnificent historical setting of Somerset House in London, experience all three floors of our remarkable collection.
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Claudette Johnson: Presence
A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson is considered one of the most significant figurative artists of her generation. For over 30 years she has created large-scale drawings of Black women and men that are at once intimate and powerful.
Presenting a carefully selected group of major works from across her career, from key early drawings such as the arresting I Came to Dance, 1982, and And I Have My Own Business in This Skin, 1982, alongside recent and new works, this exhibition offers a compelling overview of Johnson’s pioneering career and artistic development.
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Reworking Manet
This exhibition showcases a selection of outstanding works made by students aged 14–18 from across the UK. They are creative responses to Édouard Manet’s famous painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) in The Courtauld collection.
Reworking Manet, a live project brief was developed by The Courtauld’s Learning team in collaboration with a group of young people and Turner Prize-winning artist and Courtauld alumnus, Jeremy Deller. It opened to UK wide submissions 2023.
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Peter Doig
A major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig – including paintings created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London in 2021.
The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Peter Doig presents an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today.
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Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen
Experience 18 seminal paintings from Edvard Munch in spectacular detail in our latest virtual tour.
Displayed at The Courtauld Gallery, Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen marks the first time that the Rasmus Mayer collection from KODE in Bergen has been shown outside of Scandinavia.
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Van Gogh. Self-Portraits
Van Gogh. Self-Portraits takes as its springboard Van Gogh’s iconic Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), one of the most celebrated works in The Courtauld’s collection, and brings together around half of the self-portraits Van Gogh created during his short years as a painter.
This is the first time that the full span of Van Gogh’s self-portraiture has been explored in an exhibition. Several works in the exhibition were last together in Van Gogh’s studio and have never been reunited, until now.
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