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Alexandria Times3h
Female footwear in the 18th century
We can thank the American women who steward, deliver, process and transport our mail – and for putting their stamp on our ...
The Washington Post2y
As Roe falls, a 1789 painting of grieving women brings unlikely solace
This could be why during these difficult, seemingly regressive times, I turned to an unlikely place: an 18th-century ... painting is propaganda, made to glorify sacrifice on the eve of the French ...
Artnet1y
From Opulent 18th-Century French Furniture to Contemporary Paintings, Here Are 5 Lots to Watch in Artcurial’s ‘Eclectic Eye’ Sale
From rare 18th-century furnishings and objects to art by leading 20th-century painters ... as he was the last reigning monarch before the French Revolution. Created during a time when the ...
Artnet2y
Who Was the Marquise de Grollier? A Work by the 18th-Century Woman Once Called ‘the Raphael of Flower Painting’ Just Entered the Met’s Collection
He added that the work “fills out an important aspect of the 18th-century art world and the museum’s holdings in early modern still-life.” The director of the French Academy of Painting and ...
The Art Newspaper3mon
This new volume reveals the under-explored art of 18th-century cut and paste
a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de ...
Los Angeles Times1y
A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti’s 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap
The unconventional 18th-century ... popular genre paintings by artists like the Le Nain brothers in France or cheery laborers by Dutch artist Johannes Lingelbach. A destitute woman draped in ...
BBC2y
The 18th-Century clothing that reveals hidden truths
Dress codes shown in 18th-Century art can tell us a lot about race and ... its grip on its territories in the face of increasing French influence. More like this: - Britain's ...
Hyperallergic1y
The Contrived Rivalry Between Two Pioneering French Women Artists
Whenever French 18th-century artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard ... excerpted with permission and adapted from Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille ...
Berkshire Eagle2y
REVIEW: At The Clark, an exhibition of never-before-seen 18th-century drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
"Promenades on Paper: 18th-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France," on view at The Clark Art Institute through March 12 ... It was not unusual to see men and women engaged ...
Dallas Morning News28d
Kimbell Art Museum acquires a Chardin still-life after yearslong quest
"The Cut Melon," a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will be on view to the public starting Thursday at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.
Vogue2y
How the 18th-Century Drawings of Henry Fuseli Speak to Our Decadent Age
The artist is best known for his Gothic-Erotic paintings ... identifies with the growing influence of women. Women were often praised in the 18th century for their part in refining the human ...