In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression of art in France during the period of the French Revolution, around the 18th and 19th centuries. It begins with lesser-known ...

Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek and ...

PARIS — Over the course of history, political revolutions have often sparked parallel artistic revolutions, pushing artists to invent new modes of expression to better engage with their transformed ...

The career of Jacques Louis David, who came of age as an artist on the eve of the French Revolution, is often mapped in his history paintings that line the walls of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie. In ...

Art Institute trustee Carol Horvitz and her husband, Jeffrey Horvitz, have donated nearly 2,000 drawings, 200 paintings, and 50 sculptures to the Art Institute of Chicago, the museum announced Tuesday ...