Art appreciation · THE FREE COLLECTION
A closer look
at great art.
From New York to Paris, Florence to The Hague. Meet paintings in settings that evoke their museums, then step closer to read their stories.
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United States · New York
The Museum of Modern Art
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
In 1889, Van Gogh was living at the asylum in Saint-Rémy.
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France · Paris
Louvre Museum
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1503—1519
Leonardo uses delicate transitions of light and shade to model this woman seated before a landscape.
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Italy · Florence
Uffizi Gallery
Primavera
Sandro Botticelli · c. 1480
Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera, painted about 1480, is included here on the basis of the Uffizi Galleries’ records.
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Italy · Milan
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci · 1495—1498
Leonardo da Vinci created this wall painting for the dining room of the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent in Milan around 1495-1498.
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Netherlands · The Hague
Mauritshuis
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer · 1665
This painting belongs to the Dutch tradition of the tronie, a head study focused on expression, costume, and light rather than a sitter’s social identity.
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France · Paris
Musée d’Orsay
Luncheon on the Grass
Édouard Manet · 1863
Édouard Manet painted Luncheon on the Grass in 1863 in oil on canvas.
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United States · Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Georges Seurat · 1884–86, border added 1888–89
After years of preparation, Seurat arranged the people at leisure on the banks of the Seine into a quiet modern ritual.
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United States · New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32
A great wave bends into an arch about to fall.
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United States · Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Water Lilies
Claude Monet · 1906
Monet turned his Giverny water garden into an object of repeated viewing throughout his life.
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