Featured Objects

In this section you will find a number of works from the collection that are particularly popular with visitors of all kinds. Please click on an image to access more information about each work and, in many cases, a range of other activities or audio-/video-clips that we hope will encourage to you visit the Clark and see the real works of art.

• Wall Sconce
  Peter Archambo I
  British (free 1720; d. 1767)
  1730/31
  Silver
• Nymphs and Satyr
  William Bouguereau
  French (1825-1905)
  1873
  Oil on canvas
• Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter
  Mary Stevenson Cassatt
  American (1844-1926)
  1873
  Oil on canvas
• The Bathers of the Borromean Isles
  Camille Corot
  French (1796-1875)
  c. 1865-70
  Oil on canvas
• The Dancing Lesson
  Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
  French (1834-1917)
  c. 1880
  Oil on canvas
• Elizabeth and Thomas Linley
  Thomas Gainsborough
  British (1727-1788)
  c. 1768
  Oil on canvas
• Undertow
  Winslow Homer
  American (1836-1910)
  1886
  Oil on canvas
• The Cliffs at Etretat
  Claude Monet
  French (1840-1926)
  1885
  Oil on canvas
• Virgin and Child with Saints Francis, Andrew, Paul, Peter, Stephen, and Louis of Toulouse
  Ugolino di Nerio
  Italian (active 1317-1327)
  Tempera on panel
• The River Oise near Pontoise
  Camille Pissarro
  French (1830-1903)
  1873
  Oil on canvas
• Death and the Maidens
  Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
  French (1824-1898)
  1872
  Oil on canvas
• At the Concert
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  French (1841-1919)
  1880
  Oil on canvas
• Portrait of Carolus-Duran
  John Singer Sargent
  American (1856-1925)
  1879
  Oil on canvas
• Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water
  Joseph Mallord William Turner
  British (1775-1851)
  1840
  Oil on canvas