The House of Dior was established in 1946, and its first haute couture collection was shown in 1947.

In 1877, when this painting was exhibited at London’s French Gallery, a critic writing in the Art Journal described it in the following terms: ‘A wayward young lady, on whose…

In Celtic, Arthurian and medieval French legend, the Irish princess Yseult (also known as Iseult or Isolde) symbolized great beauty and virtue.

This painting depicts a skirmish between two powerful frigates towards the end of the French Revolutionary Wars.

A Portuguese artist, born in the Azores, José Júlio de Sousa-Pinto studied in Paris under the important French painters Alexandre Cabanel and Jules Bastien-Lepag

Miguel de Cervantes’s hugely popular novel Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–15) was a satire of the romance of chiva

The oak torus on this frame is unusually high relief, more in the manner we associate with carved timber frames from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Bonnard’s La Sieste, 1900, acquired in 1949, was requested for loan to Paris in 1984. The frame on the painting at the time was not in good conditio

Through the generous auspices of the Felton Bequest, the National Gallery of Victoria has acquired its first example of Dutch seventeenth-century furniture.

In late 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria made a transformative acquisition with the support of Mrs Krystyna Campbell-Pretty in memory of her late husband.

One work of Stanfield alone presents us with as much concentrated knowledge of sea and sky, as diluted, would have lasted any one of the old masters in his life.

Introduction In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria made a significant addition to its growing and increasingly important collection of Surreal objects with the acquisition of Óscar Domínguez’s La couturière…

Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern

Dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait   ‘Le nostre done cornute, cum tanti balci … tanti rechami’ (‘Our horn-wearing ladies, with their many balzi … many embroideries’) Ludovico…

This frame owes some stylistic elements to French frames from the late C18th and it is possible it was made in France.