European and modern collections · Saint Louis Art Museum

Monet, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Cézanne illustrate the richness of the Saint Louis Art Museum, between impressionist landscape, Dutch portrait and post-impressionist modernity.

The Saint Louis Art Museum preserves an extensive collection covering the great traditions of art history. This selection highlights some European masterpieces particularly suited to painted reproduction. Claude Monet reflects the changing effects of air and water around the Argenteuil railway bridge. Rembrandt focuses his portrait on the face, psychological presence and deep light. Vincent van Gogh transforms figures, streets, factories and landscapes with a rhythmic touch and expressive color. Paul Cézanne constructs the portrait of his sister Marie in masses, tonal relationships and stability of the pose. Brought together under the name of the museum, these works allow you to cross several centuries and several ways of painting without losing the singularity of each artist. The "Saint Louis Art Museum" selection notably compares The Railway Bridge in Argenteuil - Claude Monet and Portrait of a Young Man man, perhaps an artist - Rembrandt. His reading favors space.

In a museum collection, the gaze travels less by subject than by language: light, material, color and presence connect very different works.