France has added to its national collections two paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard that were thought to be missing until 2017. Both will now be displayed at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. Titled Le ...

Jean-Honore Fragonard was in many ways a painter’s painter, largely misunderstood in his time, who died virtually forgotten by his contemporaries. Today, nearly 200 years after his death, he is not ...

Christie’s closed Classics Week with $110,004,491, while Sotheby’s wrapped its Old Masters sales at the Breuer with $94.8 million—numbers that underscore the market’s continued appetite for ...

No one is better than the French at honoring past artistic triumphs, so it is odd that they waited two centuries to give Jean-Honore Fragonard full retrospective treatment. After all, Fragonard ...

A picture restorer in south-west France claims to have uncovered a painting by 18th-century French artist Jean Honoré Fragonard, which would be worth as much as two million euros if she is right.

A painting by the 18th-century French Rococo master Jean-Honoré Fragonard—long considered "insignificant" by its owner—has sold at auction for £6.6m (with fees). Offered by the French auction house ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Every art lover has experienced this disappointment: You travel somewhere, set on seeing a specific object, and find that it has been lent out, is under restoration, or inexplicably unavailable. If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Gallery of Art senior imaging scientist John K. Delaney showing images of “Young Girl Reading” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard ...

A sketch uncovered at an obscure Parisian auction in 2012 triggered groundbreaking research that revealed the original painting beneath Jean-Honore Fragonard’s Young Girl Reading to be a woman gazing ...