Despite France’s jealously protective stance toward the nation’s artistic reputation, contemporary French art has been streaming out of the country and into the hands of foreign buyers at an alarming ...

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 ...

Typically, when experts think of drawings from this period, the male nude is the most familiar image, says Clark-Getty Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin, who spent time in Paris working alongside the ...

In some ways, the report published November 28 by Le Quotidien de l’Art, came as no surprise. For decades French artists—defined as artists born in France or working there for the majority of their ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s always something new to learn about the oldest and most familiar stories in the history of art. That’s especially true of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s impressive new ...

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, ...

Curator Emerson Bowyer says the gift will help the museum reframe its presentation of early modern French art. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Can you explain the importance of this gift in ...

Art Institute trustee Carol Horvitz and her husband, Jeffrey Horvitz, have donated nearly 2,000 drawings, 200 paintings, and 50 sculptures to the Art Institute of Chicago, the museum announced Tuesday ...

Have a taste of the French countryside and a look into the hunger and opulence that shaped it with the Cincinnati Art Museum’s newest exhibition. Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- The Williams College Museum of Art will present "Works as Progress/Works in Progress: Drawing in 18th- and 19th-Century France," an exhibition featuring a selection of works on paper ...