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The
Speed features a growing collection of important examples of European
painting and sculpture dating from the 1300s to today. 17th century
Dutch and Flemish painting (with outstanding examples by Ludolph
Backhuysen, Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Peter Paul Rubens,
Jan de Bray, and Jacob Jordaens) and 18th century French painting
(including works by Fran¨ois Boucher, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard,
and Hubert Robert) are strengths of the collection. Other notable
works include paintings by Fra Bartolomeo, Lucas Cranach, Nicolas
Tournier, G.B. Tiepolo, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Henry Raeburn,
Richard Redgrave, Gustave Courbet, Alexandre Cabanel, James Tissot,
and Claude Monet. Some important sculptors represented in the
collection are Alessandro Algardi, Pietro Tacca, Jules Dalou,
and Auguste Rodin. |
