Highlights from the Cummer’s Baroque Collection include Peter Paul Rubens’ The Lamentation (c. 1605), Theodoor Rombouts’ The Concert (c. 1620), Frans Snyders’ Still Life with Fruit and Flowers (c. 1630), Giocchino Assereto’s The Lamentation (c. 1640), Reynaud Levieux de Nîmes’ Theseus Discovering His Father’s Sword (c. 1643), Sassoferrato’s Praying Madonna (c. 1660), Jan Steen’s The Continence of Scipio (late 1660s), and Claude Lorrain’s Minerva Visiting the Muses on Mount Parnassus (1680).
Works from the Rococo period include Charles Natoire’s The Awakening of Venus (1741), Simon-Louis Boizot’s marble of Marie Antoinette as Venus (c. 1775), Marie Victoire Lemoine’s Portrait of a Youth (1785), and Cornelis van Spaendonck’s Still Life with Flowers and a Bas-Relief (c. 1793).