Johannes Christianus Roedig (The Hague 1751-1802) Tulips, roses and other flowers in a classical urn overturned by a cat chasing a mouse with a statue of Flora beyond; and Peaches, grapes, pumpkins, a lemon, a pomegranate and other fruit and flowers in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bouguereau Love Élisabeth Louise Vigeé Le Brun, Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Oil on canvas, ca. 1788 KALAMAZOO.- The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is sharing 89 of its finest works of European and American art from a 300-year period...