Courtauld artworks to use as Zoom or Teams virtual backgrounds
You can now liven up the background of your daily Zoom or Teams meetings, or your Friday evening Zoom quiz, with artworks from The Courtauld Collection.
Choose from the selection below, including Cézanne’s Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine, Van Gogh’s Peach Trees in Blossom or Monet’s Antibes.
Simply click on one of the images below, then right-click the opened image and choose to save it.
Or you can click this sentence to download all the images as a .zip bundle.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Antibes, 1888.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Peach Trees in Blossom, 1889.
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine, Circa 1887.
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Lac d’Annecy, 1896.
Edouard Manet (1832 – 1883), Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil, 1874.
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906),The Card Players, 1892-1896.
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Apples, bottle and chairback, 1904 – 1906 (circa).
Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Bridge at Courbevoie, 1886-87.
Pieter the Elder Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851), Dawn after the Wreck, Circa 1841.
Alfred Sisley (1839 – 1899), Boats on the Seine, 1875-79.
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883), A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Autumn Effect at Argenteuil, 1873.
Metalwork bag, Mosul, Northern Iraq 1300 – 1330. Brass with silver and gold inlay.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), A tile factory, 1888,
How to use an image as a ‘virtual background’ in Zoom video calls
- Sign into your Zoom account
- Click your profile picture then click settings
- Select virtual background
- Add image
- More details here
How to use an image as a ‘virtual background’ in Microsoft Teams
- When you are on a Teams video call, select the ‘More Actions’ button
- Click ‘Show background effect’
- Click ‘Add new’ and select your image
- Select ‘Open ‘
- More details here
