She paints this work at summer school in rural French village Mirmande. The students slept in peasant houses, visited by goats and cow
Scenes of soldiers formed a popular subgenre of Dutch art, known as kortegaardjes, derived from the French term corps de garde for the military post where the changing of the…
After artistic training in their native Utrecht, Andries Both and his brother Jan travelled to Italy in the early 1630s.
In 1622 Rubens travelled to Paris to undertake a series of tapestry designs for Marie de’ Medici, mother of Louis XII
Jaume Cascalls was a painter and architect, and also one of the most important and influential sculptors working in Catalonia in the fourteenth century.
The French Revolution briefly destroyed the market in France for art and luxury objects. Portraiture, however, flourished as citizens sought to assert their new position in a changed social order….
François Pompon is known for his engaging animal sculptures that capture the essential character of creatures in smooth and abbreviated form
In the mid 1920s Margaret Preston embarked upon a campaign to establish a national Australian art based on the Indigenous art of Australia.
Melbourne-born Fred Williams is considered one of Australia’s finest landscape painters of the twentieth century. His works mark a great departure from traditional depictions of the Australian landscap
This painting was commissioned by the innovative Italian art collector Amedeo dal Pozzo (1579–1644
This painting is a more detailed rendition of one of the designs made by the great French illustrator Gustave Doré for the fairy tales of Charles Perrault (1628–1703), which were…
In his lifetime, Tocqué achieved fame for the unprecedented informality and unembellished naturalness of his portraits
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a French artist and composer who creates large-scale acoustic installations and environments which draw upon laws of nature and the rhythms of everyday life to produce new…
From the late 1980s until the mid 2000s, celebrated French-American artist Louise Bourgeois produced numerous ‘cells’ – closed environments made from industrial materials into which she placed various found objects…
You don’t necessarily have to see the pieces … just as they are … but as what they could be, for their potential to become something