"Promenades on Paper: 18th-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France," on view at The Clark Art Institute through March 12, features a selection of 84 works — studies, ...

Museum Scoops Three Masterpieces by Overlooked 18th Century Portrait Painter. A Luxembourg museum acquired the paintings by Monique Daniche, who made a portrait of a member of Napoleon's inner circle.

Restoration Reveals Famous 18th Century Master’s Hidden Self-Portrait. ... Watteau was born in 1684 in Valenciennes, a French commune close to the modern-day border between France and Belgium.

Portrait of Adèle Papin Playing the Harp, oil on canvas, c. 1799. The 17-year-old sitter, the famously beautiful daughter of a prominent family, was later rumored to be Napoleon's mistress ...

National Trust curator Jane Eade said van Dyck’s portrait, in the Royal Collection (1635-6), was “much copied” but “only three Le Blon prints of it were known to survive”.