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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.