Courtauld Gallery

• The Courtauld Gallery is an art gallery located in Somerset House on the Strand in London.
• It contains many sculptures, over 500 paintings and 26,000 drawings and prints, which date from the medieval to the modern period. In particular it has a large collection of French Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings.

Notable Artworks

• The Dying Gaul
  • This is a modern copy of the sculpture of the Dying Gaul (originally called the Dying Gladiator).
  • The original is housed in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, but is itself a Roman copy of the original Greek sculpture made in circa 230-220 BCE.

Photo and map: Somerset House, The Strand