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Virtual Tour Third Floor: Brittingham Gallery IV
Brittingham Gallery IV contains a selection of 19th-century paintings from France, Germany, Norway, and North America. The centerpiece of the gallery is Corot’s eye-catching canvas Orpheus Greeting the Dawn, which was painted in 1865 for the Parisian townhouse of Prince Demidoff. Other especially fine European works in this gallery are The Artist's Studio by Auguste-Xavier Leprince, Seated Boy with Portfolio by François Bonvin, and the wonderfully luminous Moonlight on the Coast by Johan Christian Dahl.
Early through mid 19th-century American painting is well represented through such works as a startlingly direct portrait of William Byrd Powell by Clement R. Edwards, a Landscape by William Sonntag, Still Life with Watermelon by Severin Roesen, The Boating Party by Albert Bierstadt, and a small but exquisite oil sketch of a landscape by Sanford Gifford. Only two sculptures are showcased in Gallery IV, both by American artists: Indian Hunter Boy by Randolph Rogers and Emancipation Group by Thomas Ball.