Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Jupiter and Antiope or Venus and Satyr, 17th century. Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 66.7 cm, 20¼ x 26¼ in. ©Courtesy of Jeff Koons PARIS.- World-renowned American contemporary artist Jeff Koons is lending three Old Master paintings to Paris Tableau, the first international art fair dedicated to Old Master paintings, from 4 to 8 November 2011 at the Palais de la Bourse, Paris. This major new event was devised by ten leading Parisian paintings dealers who invited ten important international colleagues from... [Lire la suite]

The Master of the Parrot, Saint Mary Magdalene before a curtain supported by angels in an architectural niche, oil on panel, 29 x 23 in. Estimate 600,000 - 800,000 U.S. dollars. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces its upcoming auction of Old Master Paintings on June 8, 2011 at 10 am, featuring a selection of works by the great French, Italian, Flemish and British masters of the 15th through the 19th century including Pieter Breughel II, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others.... [Lire la suite]

Elizabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun, Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 1783. Oil on canvas. Collection of Linda and Stewart Resnick. Photo © 2010 Museum Associates/LACMA LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection, which features more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick, long-time patrons of the museum. Since the early 1980s, the Resnicks have collected in many areas... [Lire la suite]

Edgar Degas, (1834–1917), Head of a Soldier, c. 1859. Watercolor, gouache, and red chalk wash over graphite, 25.6 x 21.0 cm. Fondation Custodia, Paris NEW YORK, NY.- As its major fall exhibition, the Frick presents Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection, featuring more than sixty works on paper from the holdings of the Fondation Custodia, Paris. On view until January 10, 2010, it includes drawings and watercolors by well-known masters of the French School, including Antoine Watteau, François Boucher,... [Lire la suite]

Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), Portraits of the Artist’s Family and Servants. Black and white chalk, on light brown wove paper, 17 13/16 x 11 11/16 inches (450 x 297 mm)Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum NEW YORK, NY.- Few eras in French history witnessed the same degree of radical social and political changes as those of the eighteenth century. The efflorescence of the ancien régime and its eventual downfall provide the backdrop to a period of remarkable artistic vitality and variety that subtly chronicled the... [Lire la suite]

NEW YORK, NY.- Few eras in French history witnessed the same degree of radical social and political changes as those of the eighteenth century. The efflorescence of the ancient régime and its eventual downfall provide the backdrop to a period of remarkable artistic vitality and variety that subtly chronicled the many changes taking place in France. It is this dynamic period in French art history that is the subject of Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings. On view from October 2, 2009, through January 3, 2010,... [Lire la suite]

Nicolas Poussin, A Path Leading Into a Forest Clearing, about 1635-1640. Pen and brown ink and brown wash. 38.6 X 24.6. 96.GA.24. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.- On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, July 28 - November 1, 2009, Capturing Nature’s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscape draws from the Getty’s drawings collection including some works from the Getty Research Institute, to highlight key moments in the French landscape tradition, from its emergence in the 1600s to its... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD (Grasse, 1732 -Paris, 1806). Le Rocher Toile  Signée 'Fragonard' en bas à gauche. Hauteur : 53 Largeur : 62 cm. Estimation 200 000 - 300 000 € Provenance : Collection Hippolyte Walferdin ; Sa vente, Paris, 12-16 avril 1880, n° 54 ; Vente Auguste Courtin, Paris, 29 mars 1886, n° 7 ; Vente anonyme, 4 mars 1897, n° 16 ; Vente anonyme, 8 avril 1908, n° 9 ; Collection G. de Lauverjat ; Collection Arthur Veil-Picard ; Collection J. Veil-Picard ; Collection particulière, Paris Expositions :... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre,  L’Enlèvement d’Europe, 1750, 240 x 274 cm. Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art: © Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, Mrs. John B. O’Hara Fund. « Goût se dit en peinture du caractère particulier qui règne dans un tableau par rapport au choix des objets qui sont représentés et à la façon dont ils sont rendus » Diderot « Viens, fastueux imbécile, qui ne mets ton plaisir que dans l’opinion d’autrui ! Que je t’apprenne à le goûter toi-même ! Sois voluptueux,... [Lire la suite]