International Art

The Museum has a rich collection of paintings by European masters, as well as sculptures and objects from the Middle Ages to the present day, from 14th-century religious scenes to grisaille paintings by Mantegna. Hans Memling’s Portrait of a Young Man contrasts with the austerity of an El Greco portrait, while the collection of Baroque art features French, Italian, Dutch and Flemish works with paintings by Nicolas Poussin, Salvador Rosa, Rembrandt, Emmanuel de Witte and Pieter Bruegel the Younger. Works from the 18th century include portraits by Largillière, Hogarth and Gainsborough, with Italian masters represented by Canaletto, Tiepolo and Pellegrini. Most of the works in the 19th-century collection were gifts or bequests from prominent Montreal families and reflect their preference for painters of the Barbizon School such as Corot and Daubigny. A magnificent Daumier (Nymphs Pursued by Satyrs), and the striking Tissot painting October are included with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Monet and Cézanne. The collection of early 20th-century art counts major artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Lyonel Feininger, Georges Rouault, Salvador Dalí and Otto Dix, not to mention a fine collection of small bronzes.

Albertinelli, Mariotto
Florence 1474 – Florence 1515
The Holy Family with the Adoration of the Child

Heem, Jan Davidsz. de
Utrecht 1606 - Antwerp 1684
Banquet Still Life with a View onto a Landscape

François Boucher
1703-1770
The Assumption of the Virgin

Jean-Joseph Taillasson
1745-1809
The Magdalene in the Wilderness

Charles Meynier
1768-1832
Milo of Croton, Attempting to Test His Strength, Is Caught and Devoured by a Lion

Bertin, Jean-Victor
Paris 1767 - Paris 1842
Forest Interior

Alexandre Évariste Fragonard
1780-1850
Francis I in Benvenuto Cellini’s Studio

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille
Paris 1796 - Ville-d'Avray 1875
Ville d'Avray - The Fisherman by the Lock

Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Anizy-le-Château, France, 1824 - Sèvres 1887
Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter

Lehmann, Henri
Kiel, Germany, 1814 - Paris 1882
The Education of Tobias

Ferdinand Hodler
Bern 1853 - Geneva 1918
Halberdier

Georges de Feure
1868-1943
The Swans (study for wallpaper)

Félix Vallotton
1865-1925
Vuillard Drawing at Honfleur

Lebourg, Albert-Charles
Montfort-sur-Risle 1849 - Rouen 1928
The Pont Marie at Sunset, Paris

Georges Rouault
1871-1958
The Circus

Martin Schongauer
Colmar 1440/50 - Breisach 1491
La Mise au tombeau

Ugo da Carpi
1480-about 1530
David Beheading Goliath

Tiziano Vecellio, dit Titien
Pieve di Cadore about 1488 - Venice 1576
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Jacques Bellange
1574-1616
Madonna and Child with Cradle

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609-1664
The Animals Going towards Noah’s Ark

Redon, Odilon
Bordeaux 1840 - Paris 1916
Death: My irony surpasses all others!

James Ensor
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
The Entry of Christ into Brussels