Europe and America 1500 - 1900
This collection centers on paintings and suggests the range and scope of European and American art from 1500 to 1900. Included in the collection are such works as the Adoration of the Holy Child, a triptych of the 1470s from the Circle of Bonifacio Bembo, Cornelis van Dalem's panoramic Landscape with Adam and Eve, as well as Abraham van Beyeren’s Still Life with Crab and Joseph Wright of Derby’s Portrait of Edward Becher Leacroft of Wirksworth. The 19th-century collection includes a notable selection of French sculpture, such as Eugène Emile Hébert conniving Mephistopheles, complementing the Center’s Rodin collection, as well as monumental California landscapes collected by the Stanfords, such as William Keith’s Sunset on Mount Diablo. Works from this collection are on view in two galleries.
Bernard Barryte
Chief Curator, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
