"The Annunciation" (c. late 1550s-early 1600s) pen and ink on paper by Michel Dorigny 8 1/8 in. x 7 1/16 in. Blanton Museum of Art, The Suida-Manning Col.unknown "On all sides, eyeballs blaze" (detail ...

The Clark Art Institute exhibit spotlights French prints, photos and drawings from 1840–70 steeped in the imaginary and ...

From the 16th to the late 19th century, storytelling was highly regarded in the world of French art. The Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture), ...

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Before Modernism blew everybody out of the tree, Hector Giacomelli specialized in birds. Picasso's father, José Ruiz y Blasco, refined that specialization. He painted only pigeons. If you were a ...

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has gotten its hands on what is one of the most important collections of French art outside of France. With over 60 drawings on display, as well as ...

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy, “Aeneas and Companions in Latium” (circa 1790-1793) black ink and wash with white gouache highlights on brown paper (21.4 x 16.3 cm) PARIS — Over the course of history, ...

The courtiers of prerevolutionary France valued charm, wit, and “erotic cynicism,” said Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. Frits Lugt, a Dutch collector with “a special fondness for the French 18th ...

“Lines from Life: French Drawings from the Diamond Collection,” at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is a pleasant show of forty-three drawings and a lithograph, largely ...

So it was that the news that fresh American troops would be joining the fight was met with eagerness by allies like the French. Those eager French citizens included a certain group of roughly ...