William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905), “Tricoteuse (The Knitter),” 1879, Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 24 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905), “Young Shepherdess,” 1868, Oil on canvas, 42 x 31 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917), “Le Penseur (The Thinker),” 19th Century (Casting ca. 1920-1930), Bronze, edition 10 of 86, 27 1/4 × 14 1/2 × 22 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Elizabeth Jane Gardner (American, 1837–1922), Daphnis and Chloe, ca. 1882, Oil on canvas, 65 x 44 in. Museum purchase funded by Arthur I. Appleton.
Pierre-Auguste Cot (French, 1837-1883), “Le Printemps (Springtime),” 19th century, Oil on canvas, 41 1/8 x 25 1/4 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Pierre-Auguste Cot (French, 1837-1883), “All Souls Day at the Camposanto, Pisa,” 1872, Oil on canvas, 50 x 85 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933), “When Love is Young,” 1883, Oil on canvas, 22 x 34 in., Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867), “Le Matin (Morning),” 19th Century, Oil on canvas, 12 x 21 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Auguste Bonheur (French, 1824-1884), “Rencontre des Deux Troupeaux dans les Pyrenees (The Meeting of Two Herds in the Pyrenees),” ca.1861, Oil on canvas, 90 x 140 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton
Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822-1899), “Peasants Going to Market,” 1866, Watercolor on paper, 13 x 21 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807-1876), “La Figure dans une Clairière (Figure in a Clearing),” 1875, Oil on panel, 19 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (French, 1827-1906), “Femmes Récoltant des Pommes de Terre (Women Harvesting Potatoes),” 1868, Oil on canvas, 49 5/8 x 41 1/8 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Antoine-Jean-Etienne Faivre (French, 1830-1905), “Portrait de Nessim-Bey Campagne d’Asie (Portrait of Nessim-Bey, The Asian Campaign),” 1855, Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 in., Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824 – 1904), “Odalisque,” not dated, Oil on canvas, 15 ½ x 12 ¼ in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Conrad Kiesel (German, 1846-1921), “Mandolinata,” n.d., Oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 46 1/4 in. Gift of Arthur I. Appleton.
Beloved by the public and museum founder Arthur I. Appleton, the European collection spans the 17th through 19th centuries and includes painting, sculpture and decorative arts from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Great Britain and Germany. Artistic movements such as Romanticism, Post-Romanticism, Realism, Orientalism and the pre-Raphaelites are represented. Acclaimed artists in the collection include Auguste Rodin, Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz de la Peña, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Pierre-Auguste Cot, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jules Breton, among others.