The French king ... heralded the end of the big wig craze. When King Louis XV came of age, he favored simpler hairstyles at his court. Portraits of the new king depict him with powdered hair ...

Gauguin’s final “self-portrait” is a fake, according to Fabrice Fourmanoir, a French researcher who lived ... when it was owned by Louis Grélet, a Swiss liquor merchant and photographer ...

An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

A long-overdue retrospective celebrates the most overlooked of the Neo-Impressionists, an artist known for his unsparing ...

Prosecutors requested on Wednesday up to four months in jail for members of a far-right group who expressed their opposition ...

Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

Renowned for his portrait paintings, John Singer Sargent was one of the most remarkable artists of the Edwardian era. He ...

A journey to the remote Indian Ocean island reveals the story behind the fragrant, delicious, ubiquitous spice—and the ...

The outfits from the evening's Carine Roitfeld-curated fashion show were auctioned for 450,000 euros, while Chopard diamond ...

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