Robert Nanteuil after Laurent Dufour, Marie-Jeanne-Baptiste, Duchesse de Savoie (1678)

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the photograph rapidly replaced the painted portrait as the public’s preferred medium for recording an accurate individual likene...

First Manet then the Impressionists followed the road paved by Courbet in representing reality in painting and went even further by initiating new research based on the perception ...