The movement · 1860s–1890s
Impressionism
Light, weather and the moment it passed
Painters who left the studio to catch sun on water and smoke over railway stations. Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Morisot, printed on museum-grade paper.
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853–1890 · Arles and Auvers
Around 860 oil paintings in ten years, many made in his last two. Thick paint, hard colour, and the fields and night skies of southern France.
By subject
Landscapes
Fields, forests, rivers and mountains
Three centuries of looking out of the window, from Dutch skies to Cézanne's Provence. A view for the wall that doesn't have one.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665
Not a portrait of anyone in particular, but a tronie: a study of a face, a turban and a single point of light. The original hangs in the Mauritshuis, The Hague.