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Gallery Guides in English in PDF Format

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Gallery guides of the collection are available as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. To access these documents you must download Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free of charge at http://www.adobe.com.

American and British Galleries
Constable and Turner, British Landscapes of the Early 1800s
Britain's Royal Academy of Art in the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
British and American Grand Manner Portraits of the 1700s
Gilbert Stuart
John Singleton Copley
British and American History Paintings of the 1700s
American Portraits of the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
British Conversation Pieces and Portraits of the 1700s
Homer, Eakins, and Ryder: American Painters in the Late 1800s
Whistler, Sargent, and Tanner: Americans Abroad in the Late 1800s
American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s
American Realists of the Early 1900s
Founding Benefactors of the National Gallery of Art

Dutch Galleries
Frans Hals
Dutch Still Lifes and Landscapes of the 1600s
Dutch Landscapes and Seascapes of the 1600s
Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s

French Galleries
18th-Century France: Chardin and Portraiture
18th-Century France: The Rococo and Watteau
18th-Century France: Boucher and Fragonard
18th- and 19th-Century France (Neoclassicism)
Cézanne
Paul Gauguin
Mary Cassatt, Auguste Renoir
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Claude Monet
"Impressionism"
The Beginnings of Impressionist Landscape
Edgar Degas
Manet and His Influence
Marble Sculpture from France
Romantics and Realists

German Galleries
German Painting and Sculpture in the Late 1400s and 1500s
15th- and Early 16th-Century Germany

Italian Galleries
Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy during the 1200s and 1300s
Italian Altarpieces and Religious Sculpture of the 1300s
Painting in Siena in the 14th and Early 15th Centuries
The Early Renaissance in Florence
Portraiture in Florence, Italy, in the Later 1400s
Florentine Sculpture of the Late 15th Century
Patrons and Artists in Late 15th-Century Florence
Siena in the 1400s
The Early Renaissance in Northern Italy
The Feast of the Gods
Raphael
Venice and the North
Fresco Cycle with the Story of Procris and Cephalus
The Emergence of New Genres
Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice
Mannerism
Titian and the Late Renaissance in Venice
Venetian Painting in the Later Sixteenth Century

Netherlandish and Flemish Galleries
Saints' Lives and Symbols
Netherlandish Painting in the 1400s
Netherlandish and Spanish Altarpieces in the Late 1400s and Early 1500s
Antwerp in the Early 1500s
The Netherlands and France in the 1500s
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Sculpture and Decorative Arts Galleries
Fifteenth-Century Sculpture in Tuscany
The Della Robbia and Their Contemporaries
Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s
Production of French Decorative Arts in the 1700s
Rococo Decorative Arts of the Mid-1700s
Widener Room: French Interior Decoration in the Mid-1700s
Medieval and Renaissance Decorative Arts from the 1100s to the 1500s

Spanish Galleries
El Greco
Spanish Painting in the Seventeeth Century
Francisco de Goya

See also, The Director's Tour: Highlights in Foreign Languages audio tour, the Foreign Language Visitor Guides, and the Foreign Language Guided Tours.