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.
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We care for an outstanding art collection, advance the study and conservation of visual art, and share it through acclaimed exhibitions. Your support helps us inspire new ways of seeing and thinking about art.
...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...
...this technique would make the painted surfaces feel more vibrant. Whereas Impressionist artists like Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir used large areas of complementary colours to produce strong contrasts...
...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-BergeÌ€re, Renoir’s La Loge, and Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. During the 1920s, English industrialist and philanthropist...
...Lautrec, as well as entire groups of works by Delacroix, Courbet, Daumier and Renoir. Pursuing the aim of acquiring art based solely on aesthetic rather than historical and geographic criteria,...
...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...
