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Find out how to access the National Gallery Library, with its collection of catalogues, periodicals, guidebooks and foreign language materials on paintings in the Western European tradition from 1200 to 1900.

Research into our collection, and bringing the results of that research to a wider public, lie at the heart of the National Gallery’s role

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The Research Centre is currently open to external readers from Tuesdays to Friday. We are also open for online enquiries about our library and archive collections, including the history of the Gallery and its Collection, and to schedule research appointments, but we are unable to give general information about art or artists or to give valuations of works of art. Please email: research.centre@nationalgallery.org.uk

This is a bibliography for the Building the Picture online publication.

1819 - 1899

A team of curators, scientists and conservators are re-cataloguing the entire National Gallery collection. Read the latest research about paintings by 19th-century landscape artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

New research on Corot's painting 'The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct'. Corot was a 19th-century landscape artist who greatly influenced the Impressionists.

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.