About the museum
The story of the Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery belongs to the Courtauld Institute of Art and is housed in Somerset House on London's Strand. It grew from the collection of the textile industrialist Samuel Courtauld, who gave his Impressionist paintings in 1932.
Small and intimate, it holds some of the best-loved works of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, together with old masters from Botticelli to Rubens.
The collection
Samuel Courtauld's gift, made with the founding of the Courtauld Institute in 1932, gave the gallery its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Renoir's La Loge, Cézanne's Card Players and Mont Sainte-Victoire, and Gauguin's Nevermore.
Other bequests added early Italian painting, Rubens's oil sketches, Bloomsbury Group art and a remarkable collection of drawings, making it one of the finest small museums in Britain.
At ArtLogia you can order 36 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 25 artists led by Georges Seurat, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
- paintings to order
- 36
- artists
- 25
- art movements
- 11
- years covered
- 1322–1916
The building
Somerset House was built from 1776 by William Chambers to house government offices and the first learned societies, including the Royal Academy, whose rooms the gallery now occupies. The gallery reopened in 2021 after a major renovation that restored the top-floor Great Room.
Masterpieces to see
A Bar at the Folies-BergèreÉdouard Manet, 1882 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Self-Portrait with Bandaged EarVincent van Gogh, 1889 · Hand-painted reproduction available
The Card PlayersFrancisco Goya, 1777 · Hand-painted reproduction available
NevermorePaul Gauguin, 1897 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Planning a visit
Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and Van Gogh's self-portrait hang together in the top-floor LVMH Great Room.
