31 July 2015 – 8 November 2015 | NGV International | Admission fees apply More than 400 works from the personal collection of Catherine the Great will travel to Australia in…

What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.

When E. Phillips Fox returned to Melbourne in late 1892 after five years studying and working in France, he encountered a city in the grip of economic depression.

There is something familiar yet unsettling about Yvonne Todd’s Approximation of Tricia Martin, 200

Gloves are highly evocative but also ambivalent. They serve to protect and conceal, attract and deflect, mimicking the human skin beneath with the embellished borrowed skin of another creature.

The framing of paintings has a long history, dating back through the thirteenth century and beyond.

By the mid 1860s, photography had become more affordable and accessible to a broader section of society. As such, portraits taken at professional studios around Melbourne became hugely popular.

Enigmatic expatriate artist Rupert Bunny (1864–1947) lived most of his life in cosmopolitan Pari

E. Phillips Fox was a favourite portraitist of Melbourne’s wealthy upper middle classes and renowned as an excellent painter of childre

Landseer was a fastidious painter widely celebrated for his brilliant portrayals of animals.

In seventeenth-century England gloves played important social and ceremonial roles and were worn on almost every occasion, from hawking to dancing to fighting and dining.

The former framing of Reynolds’ Miss Susanna Gale posed a number of interesting questions

The Frederick Pollak frame (see above image), formerly on The Virgin and Child, is a rendering of 15th century Flemish frame

The acquisition in 1878 of John Herbert’s painting Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law, c.1872–78, was an important moment in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collecting hi

Tom Roberts’ Miss Isobel McDonald (1895) was previously framed in a simple, bevelled moulding with a painted, antiqued surface (see image above