The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression of art in France during the period of the French Revolution, around the 18th and 19th centuries. It begins with lesser-known ...

Before the revolution, the party. The show opens with the artists of the ancien régime. There’s Watteau, represented by a lovely crayon study of a little girl, and four cherub ...

Arts and Entertainment The dark side of Disney’s unexpected love affair with frothy French rococo Worlds collide in the Met’s magnificent ‘Inspiring Walt Disney’ exhibition January 6, 2022 ...

Galleries Market Star Painter Flora Yukhnovich, Known for Her Contemporary Take on French Rococo, Joins Mega Gallery Hauser and Wirth The artist graduated art school in 2017, and was making seven ...

That’s how Bernard Dufour, a French abstract painter from the 20 th century, once described Pierrot, a 1718-1719 painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau. He’s not wrong.

Object Details Artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Label This oil sketch is part of a group of similar works later collectively titled the Six Projects by Charles Lang Freer. It dates from a ...

Yet they all have their sources in French 18th century art and design. Objects from elaborate rococo clocks to “outlandish turreted vases in pistachio and gold” seem to have sprung straight ...