European Ar

  • Les arceaux fleuris, Giverny (Flowering Arches, Giverny)
  • Pollice Verso
  • Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist


Online Gallery

Our European Collection features more than 1,200 paintings, drawings and sculptures depicting everything from religion to everyday life from the 14th to 19th centuries.

Artists include:
Marco Palmezzano, Astorga Master, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino), Abraham Janssens, François Boucher, George Romney, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Auguste Rodin, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, and Claude Monet.

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Select Exhibition History

Susan G. Komen Art for the Cure

Orme Lewis Gallery
August 30, 2008 – October 26, 2008

Passport to Europe

Steele Gallery
April 6, 2008, 2008 - June 15, 2008

Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse & More

Katz Wing, Main Level
January 20, 2008 - May 4, 2008

Illuminated Manuscripts

Steele Gallery
December 11, 2007 - March 9, 2008

Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art:

Treasures from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Katz Wing
January 28, 2007 - May 13, 2007

A Century of Irish Art: Selections from The Brian P. Burns Collection

European Galleries
March 3 2007 - May 6, 2007

Fierce Reality: Italian Masters from 17th Century Naples

Steele Gallery
December 10, 2006 - March 4, 2007

Collecting the Impressionists:

Masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Great Hall
January 21, 2006 – March 12, 2006

In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny
Steele Gallery
February 6, 2005 – May 8, 2005

Degas in Bronze
Steele Gallery
February 29 - May 30, 2004

Left: Les arceaux fleuris, Giverny (Flowering Arches, Giverny), Claude-Oscar Monet, 1913. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Harrington. Center: Pollice Verso, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Museum purchase. Right: Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, Carlo Dolci, c. 1670. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of an anonymous donor.