Can you name the painter from the painting?
One painting and four painters: choose the one who made it. Every painter in this game has more than one work in the collection, so the names repeat and the game rewards you for learning a hand rather than memorising a single picture. One mistake ends the run.
How to play
- A painting fills the board. Choose who painted it from the four names at the bottom.
- A correct answer is revealed, adds one to your streak and brings up the next round automatically.
- One wrong answer ends the run, and the right answer is highlighted. There is no timer; press Finish to end a run early.
- Every painter in the game has at least two works in the collection, and the right answer is drawn evenly from the painters, so names repeat and learning a painter’s style pays off.
- Your result is saved in this browser. Once enough people have played a game, the results also show how your score ranks, and you can copy or share an image of your result, or replay.
Tips for playing
Painters give themselves away by habit. Monet returns to the same scene in different light; Renoir softens faces and edges; Van Gogh lays paint in visible directional strokes; Degas crops figures like a photograph; Cézanne builds form from flat patches of colour. Subject helps too — Toulouse-Lautrec at the cabaret, Cassatt with mothers and children.
All 55 painters in the game
Show all 55 painters
| Painter | Paintings |
|---|---|
| Claude Monet | 33 |
| Pierre-Auguste Renoir | 14 |
| Édouard Manet | 9 |
| Vincent van Gogh | 9 |
| Camille Pissarro | 8 |
| Paul Gauguin | 8 |
| Paul Cezanne | 7 |
| George Inness | 6 |
| Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas | 6 |
| Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | 5 |
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 5 |
| James McNeill Whistler | 5 |
| Jean Baptiste Camille Corot | 5 |
| Vasily Kandinsky | 5 |
| Constant Troyon | 4 |
| Hubert Robert | 4 |
| John Singer Sargent | 4 |
| Alfred Sisley | 3 |
| Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco | 3 |
| Eugène Delacroix | 3 |
| Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes | 3 |
| Frederic Remington | 3 |
| Georges Seurat | 3 |
| Giovanni di Paolo | 3 |
| Henri Matisse | 3 |
| Jean Charles Cazin | 3 |
| Jules Dupré | 3 |
| Mary Cassatt | 3 |
| Peter Paul Rubens | 3 |
| Piet Mondrian | 3 |
| Amedeo Modigliani | 2 |
| Berthe Morisot | 2 |
| David Teniers the Younger | 2 |
| Diego Velázquez | 2 |
| Frédéric Bazille | 2 |
| George Hitchcock | 2 |
| Gustave Caillebotte | 2 |
| Gustave Courbet | 2 |
| Henri Fantin-Latour | 2 |
| Henry Fuseli | 2 |
| Jacques Louis David | 2 |
| Jean Antoine Watteau | 2 |
| Joseph Mallord William Turner | 2 |
| Lucas Cranach the Elder | 2 |
| Martin Johnson Heade | 2 |
| Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña | 2 |
| Pierre Andrieu | 2 |
| Pompeo Girolamo Batoni | 2 |
| Sandro Botticelli | 2 |
| Théodore Rousseau | 2 |
| Thomas Cole | 2 |
| Tosa Mitsuoki | 2 |
| William Merritt Chase | 2 |
| William Michael Harnett | 2 |
| Winslow Homer | 2 |
Names as the Art Institute of Chicago credits them. Each painter has at least two paintings in the game, and every painter is equally likely to be the answer.
Frequently asked questions
Whose name counts as the answer?
The painter the Art Institute of Chicago credits, in the museum’s own form of the name. Attribution can change as scholarship changes; the museum’s current record is what counts here.
Why do the same painters keep coming up?
Every painter in the game has at least two works in the collection, and answers are drawn evenly from the painters, so you can learn a painter’s style and recognise it in a picture you have not seen before.
How many painters are in the game?
55, credited across 226 paintings. Each has at least two works in the collection.
Which painter has the most paintings in the game?
Claude Monet, with 33 paintings.
Learn a painter’s habits across different subjects
Look past whether the painting shows a landscape or a person. Compare the edges of forms, the direction of brushstrokes, the treatment of shadows and the way figures are arranged. Those habits can survive a change of subject.
After an incorrect answer, connect one feature to the credited painter rather than memorising the whole thumbnail. The collection contains multiple works by eligible artists, so that observation may help on a picture you have not seen before. Attribution follows the museum record and can change with later scholarship.
How this measure is defined
The painter is the one the museum credits, using the museum’s own form of the name. Only painters with more than one work in the collection appear, and the wrong options are other painters from the same collection. Attribution can change as scholarship changes; the museum’s current record is what counts here.
Sources
Source: Art Institute of Chicago · Data period: 2026 · Collected: (UTC)
Paintings the Art Institute of Chicago releases as public domain, taken in the museum’s own order of prominence. Each record is re-checked against the museum’s public domain flag before it is used.
The collection date tells you when we retrieved the source, not when every underlying observation was made. A failed refresh does not advance that date. For comparisons, the snapshot loaded for your run supplies the answers.
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