First comprehensive catalogue of this area of the collection with works ranging in date from a mid-nineteenth-century landscape by the Barbizon painter Theodore Rousseau to a nude of 1919 by Henri Matisse. The period covers 19th and early 20th century paintings up to 1920 and the term 'European' includes painters from Scandinavia and the Balkans. It does not include painters from the British Isles, whose work will be the subject of a separate publication. This volume forms part of a new series of collection-based catalogues which will eventually cover all of the Gallery's principal collecting areas. Also available in paperback. The author is the senior research curator of international art at the National Gallery of Victoria and has mounted a major exhibition to coincide with this publication.