When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Photo ... and launched his artistic career during the tumultuous years before the French Revolution. Lethière’s talent as a painter of portraits of the ...

The Cognacq-Jay Museum houses an extensive collection of 18th-century art and objects donated by French businessman Ernest Cognacq. Though no one was injured, the museum is closed until further ...

Paris is often considered the capital of the Enlightenment, with all eyes throughout Europe looking to the French city ... exchange on eighteenth-century France. Areas of interest may include, but are ...

while the 18th century became the culmination of this French effervescence. Nevertheless, the study of the particularity of the models of production and distribution - workshops, Academies, ...

Pontoise (France) (AFP) – A top French art expert went on trial on Tuesday accused of falsely claiming furniture he built to be from the 18th century that was then sold at high prices to buyers ...

A connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture fooled buyers into purchasing ... He became a fixture in Parisian society and a celebrity in the art world, until he was felled by a former student ...