‘Empress Josephine’ or Frankfort Rose (Rosa turbinata), from "Les Roses" by Claude-Antoine Thory

Claude Lorraine, whose artistic inspiration derived from the Roman Campagna, can be considered one of the great figures of 17th-century classical landscape painting. He arrived in ...

Together with The Adoration of the Magi, now in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, The Virgin and Child with Saint Rose of Viterbo was acquired in Spain by Mr Stanhope, later Lord Har...

Character: description, miniature in the middle of the leaf, 99 x 119 mm. Pollen shield. On the right there are six red hearts in silver 1). On the left is a blue oval green laurel...

Joséphine de Beauharnais was the widow of an executed general when she met Napoléon Bonaparte, who was her junior by six years. Joséphine was his first wife, and she became Empress...

Flowers are everywhere in Renoir’s paintings, whether as part of the landscape or as a decorative element—for example, gracing a lady’s hat—and they continue the centuries-long tra...

Within the work of the Le Nain brothers, Antoine, Louis and Mathieu, their genre paintings are the most appreciated, although they also produced religious and mythological composit...