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The Courtauld Gallery
A small gallery in Somerset House with one of the most beautiful collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world, including Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
History of the museum
The textile businessman Samuel Courtauld bought Impressionist paintings when they were still unpopular in Britain and, in 1932, helped to found the Courtauld Institute of Art to study art history. He gave his collection to the institute. Since 1989 the gallery has been in Somerset House, a grand building by the Thames, and it reopened after a big renovation in 2021.
Top pieces
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Édouard Manet, 1882 -
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear Vincent van Gogh, 1889 -
Mont Sainte-Victoire Paul Cézanne, 1887
In our gallery from here (7)
A Bar at the Folies-BergèreÉdouard Manet · 1882
La logePierre-Auguste Renoir · 1874
Bathers at AsnièresGeorges Seurat · 1884
Christ and the Woman Taken in AdulteryPieter Brueghel the Elder · 1565
Self-Portrait with Bandaged EarVincent van Gogh · 1889
Young Woman Powdering HerselfGeorges Seurat · 1889
Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large PinePaul Cézanne · 1887