Feature Archive Thomas Hoving's personal choice of the Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization      A note about navigation: all external links open in a new window, and many of these spawn a second window if you click to enlarge an item. The Nineteenth Century   Artist      Title of Work      Date      Medium Antonio Canova Pauline Borghese as Venus Galleria Borghese, Rome Details of the head as seen from the left side and the right side 1808 sculpture Goya The Third of May, 1808 Prado Museum, Madrid 1814 painting John Constable Wivenhoe Park, Essex National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Detail images... 1816 painting Caspar Friedrich The Wanderer in the Mists Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1818 painting Eugene Delacroix The Death of Sardanapalus Musée du Louvre, Paris A good detail image and a couple of sketches for the painting... 1827 painting J.M.W. Turner Rain, Steam, and Speed National Gallery, London 1844 painting Gustave Courbet The Sleepers Musée du Petit Palais, Paris 1862 painting Paul Cezanne The Black Clock Private Collection 1869-71 painting Thomas Eakins The Gross Clinic Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia 1875 painting Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. 1881 painting Edouard Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Courtauld Institute Galleries, London 1881-82 painting Georges Seurat Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte Art Institute of Chicago 1884-86 painting van Gogh The Starry Night Museum of Modern Art, New York 1889 painting Edvard Munch The Scream Munch Museum, Oslo 1893 painting Paul Gauguin Whence Come We? What Are We? Whither Go We? Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1897 painting Auguste Rodin The Gates of Hell Rodin Museum, Paris Many detail images of the Musée d'Orsay's plaster model for the work have been put online by William Allen at Arkansas State University and by Jeffery Howe at Boston College. (N.B. The Gates of Hell was not cast into bronze until after Rodin's death.) 1880-1917 bronze Jump to: • Ancient Art Through the Classical Era • The Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance • The High Renaissance and the Late Renaissance • The Baroque and Rococo Eras • The Nineteenth Century • The Twentieth Century