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The Palace of Versailles swooped in and scored a legendary Adélaïde Labille-Guiard portrait at auction using the French right ...

Pastel, that vivid yet exceedingly delicate medium, is at the heart of the Frick collection’s new show setting the contemporary work of Nicolas Party in dialogue with a portrait by 18th-century ...

When most visitors think of the Louvre in Paris, names like Leonardo da Vinci or Delacroix come to mind. Yet tucked away in its expansive galleries are hidden treasures by forgotten artists. Their ...

Florida’s Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg has made an exciting discovery about a portrait long part of its collection: the work, previously believed to be by the British painter Francis Cotes, is ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- There is always something interesting and rare to find when searching for antiques on eBay, but you must have the eye and the knowledge to recognize what is real and what is not ...

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, "Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children" (1783), pastel on three sheets of blue paper, mounted on canvas, 38 ¾ x 31 1/8 inches (image courtesy the J. Paul Getty ...

This winter brings a whole new lineup of rotating exhibits to The Getty Center in Los Angeles. From Medieval and Renaissance era paintings, frames, and illuminated texts to the earliest and modern ...

A rare highlight of Christie's online auction of Old Master and British drawings that started Thursday is Jean-Étienne Liotard’s pastel Portrait of Philibert Cramer (1727-1779), one of the principal ...

An exhibition of forty vibrant, elaborately framed drawings, many of which rival oil paintings in their impact. Through Aug. 14. (Metropolitan Museum of Art; May 17-Aug. 14.) Published in the print ...

Rosalba Carriera, "Couple during the Carnival" (all images courtesy Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia) VENICE — Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757) was one of the most famous painters of her time. She was ...

Since the 18th century, the works of Maurice Quentin de la Tour have been highly prized by connoisseurs of Old Master painting and largely ignored by everyone else. Part of the reason for his ...