National Gallery, London 🏛🖼👨🏼‍🎨

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  The Skiff – Renoir

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  Wheatfield with Cypresses – Van Gogh

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  Harvest – Gauguin

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  Cupola in the Main Hall

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  The Water-Lily Pond – Monet

The Cupola in the Central Hall

Easily one of the best collections in the world of paintings of all times, accessible to everybody free of charge seven days a week. The collection of the National Gallery in London was started at the beginning of the 19th century thanks to some large bequests of paintings donated to the country on the condition a suitable accommodation was provided for the exhibition and the conservation of the artworks. By now the collection is composed of more than 2,300 works of art representing all the major traditions of Western European paintings from the 13th to the 20th century.

Wheatfield with Cypresses – Van Gogh

The Impressionist section of the Gallery, exhibited in Rooms 41-44, features some major artworks by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin and more, giving a sense of the different periods of this artistic movement and its major artists. Remarkable in this section are a plain-air painting by Renoir, The Skiff, one of the best version of the Sunflowers and Wheatfield with Cypresses by Van Gogh, and a representation of the Japanese Bridge in his garden in Giverny by Monet.

The Skiff – Renoir

Given the large numbers of paintings in the collection these are exhibited on rotation, to give the opportunity to showcase as much of the artworks owned as possible, and to give the opportunity to loan some of them to other art galleries across the country or for exhibitions abroad.

The Harvest – Gauguin

Some post-impressionist paintings, like the Harvest, by Gauguin, have been acquired as part of settlements of inheritance tax or are on loan from other galleries, in this case from Tate Britain, and are exhibited at the National Gallery for consistency with the rest of the collection on display.

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