The Musée d’Orsay hopes the restoration of ‘A Burial at Ornans’—once a Salon scandal, now a pride of the Paris museum ...

44 x 60 cm. (17.3 x 23.6 in.) ...

Written between November 1872 and April 1873, these letters remained hidden for more than a century due to their explicitly erotic nature. Yet they uncover a previously unknown side of Courbet, ...

Long before Claude Monet became a master of Impressionism he was a caricaturist sketching the locals in Le Havre.

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After learning its acquisition “The Rock of Hautepierre,” a Gustave Courbet painting circa 1869, earlier had been owned by a collector killed at Auschwitz, the Art Institute made an ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was not just a great advisor to art collectors, but an accomplished artist in her own right.

They were often painted in heavy impasto (thick layers of paint, often applied with a palette knife). This distinctive style became the artist's trademark. Courbet was central to the origins of a ...

In business since 1975, The Art Collection Inc, has grown from a small private, Art business buying and selling fine arts and antiques in New York, to becoming one of the largest and most well ...

(in effect, an incorporated business) opened in Paris in the studio of the renowned photographer Félix Nadar. It showed some ...

Several of the artists in the exhibition engage with the ways painting has been in competition with, or is mostly consumed ...