The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
The Courtauld Institute is a research-led, independent college of the University of London, offering world–renowned programmes in the history, conservation, curation and business of art.
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...collector and philanthropist Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947). The exhibition includes many of the most iconic paintings in The Courtauld’s Gallery’s collection, such as Edouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Renoir’s...
The Courtauld cares for one of the greatest art collections in the UK, sharing these works with the public at the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, central London. Our remarkable...
The Courtauld’s world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces are located in the Gallery’s LVMH Great Room. Highlights on display include Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Van Gogh’s...
...Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking representation of the female performer The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), Manet’s groundbreaking depiction of modern life Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne....
...sculpture, and decorative arts spanning the medieval period to the present day including world-famous Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by the likes of Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Van Gogh. We...
...remotely. Using Renoir’s La Loge (1874) as a starting point to consider fashion and the gaze, students developed the cover and a double page spread of a zine that makes...
...of Jean Béraud and James Tissot to the barmaids, laundresses, dancers and sex workers depicted by Manet, Degas, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec, raising questions about the relationship between artist and model,...
...Manet, Renoir and more. At 8pm, guests are then called downstairs to dine in our Rubens and Baroque Room, the Gallery’s premier private dining space and home to The Courtauld’s...
...discuss how historic fashions, such as the glamorous outfits worn in Renoir’s La Loge, can be understood by a modern audience. This hour will read the fashion depicted in our...
...online exhibits is also available to view, including Fashion and Illusion in Renoir’s La Loge; The Precious and Unique Courtauld Bag; Explore the Figures and their meanings in Botticelli’s Trinity...
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...
...paintings from The Courtauld’s collection such as Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Renoir’s La Loge, and Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. During the 1920s, English industrialist and philanthropist...
