European Art
Experience centuries of history in the museum’s superb collection of European paintings, decorative arts, arms and armor, design, architecture, and sculpture.
Collection Highlights
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Wilhelm von Worms the Elder
Robert Adam
George Washington Jack
Peter Paul Rubens
Paul CĂ©zanne
Judith Leyster
Marie-Rosalie Bonheur (also called Rosa Bonheur)
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Auguste Rodin
About the Collection
The European Art department oversees more than 22,000 objects, ranging chronologically from the middle ages to the early 20th century. This expansive collection includes arms and armor, ceramics, glass, enamels, coins and medals, furniture, jewelry, lighting, metalwork, sculpture, stained glass, tapestries, textiles, wallpaper, architectural elements, and tools and utensils.
Thanks to generations of Philadelphia collectors, the museum’s holdings are particularly strong in early Netherlandish, Italian, Dutch, British, and French painting with noteworthy Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections. The department also manages the Rodin Museum.