Painting from the medieval through the early modern period, Sculpture from 1700 to 1900, the Rodin Museum

The Department of European Painting before 1900 is responsible for masterpieces spanning nearly 800 years, among them the more than 1,200 works in the renowned John G. Johnson Collection. Highlights include Italian and Northern European Renaissance paintings such as Pietro Lorenzetti’s Virgin and Child Enthroned and Rogier van der Weyden’s The Crucifixion, with the Mourning Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, as well as outstanding representations of 17th-century painting, including Nicolas Poussin’s The Birth of Venus and Peter Paul Rubens’s Prometheus Bound. The Museum’s collection of 17th-century Dutch pictures is especially noteworthy, constituting one of the largest groups of its kind in the world. Notable bequests aside from Johnson’s include John Howard McFadden’s great English paintings, such as J.M.W. Turner’s Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, and Carroll S. Tyson’s superb collection of paintings by such masters as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh. The highlight of the Museum’s collection of later European sculpture is the group of 127 bronzes, marbles, and plasters by Auguste Rodin, bequeathed to the City of Philadelphia by Jules Mastbaum in 1926 for display in the Rodin Museum, now administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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