In the magnificent rooms of Charlottenburg Palace, ceiling paintings, tapestries, paintings, porcelain and furniture depict paradisiacal garden landscapes, lush floral arrangements and exotic plant ...

Beloved of capitalists and kings are the works of Antoine Watteau. Few others can afford them. Of about 200 Watteau paintings in the world, three U. S. museums have been able to acquire one apiece.* ...

Sixty years ago a good picture by Jean Antoine Watteau cost less than $500. Last week Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum paid some $250,000 for its first Watteau painting. For $250,000 the Metropolitan ...

I guess we should be expect an LA museum to acquire a painting of actors but this one might be by the great 18th C. French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Maybe a Watteau? (original image by Getty, via ...

The Prado Museum enriches its collection with two early masterpieces by François Boucher, thanks to a bequest from collector Juan José Luna Fernández, expanding the representation of the Adonis myth ...

The Petit Palais, one of Paris’s most agreeable museums and with a permanent collection open to the public free of charge, is renowned for its exhibitions featuring often overlooked artists.

PaintingsPaintings by Antoine Watteau, the French master, have gone on display in France two months after being saved from fires in Los Angeles, reports The Times. The works, owned by Lionel Sauvage, ...

The museum is presenting an exhibition on the importance of art in the work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Marcel Proust (Auteuil, 1871 - Paris, 1922), recognised both in ...

Much of this book is devoted to paintings by three celebrated French artists: Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) and François Boucher (1703-70). However, it brings to them a ...

Then there’s the relationship between the characters themselves. The central figure, a clown character alternatively referred to as Pierrot or Gilles—hence the two titles—is thought to have been based ...

The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting by the Rococo pioneer Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) that once hung in No.10 Downing Street—marking the second time in recent days that the ...

A temporary export bar has been placed on Le Rêve de L’Artiste by Jean-Antoine Watteau. The historic painting once belonged to Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. The masterpiece, ...