Nicolas de Largillière was a French artist known for his painting of portraits during the rococo period. Born in 1656 in Paris, France, he spent much of his life in Paris, France. He was influenced by ...

Valland, a museum employee and a member of the French Resistance, recorded the systematic theft of artworks by the Nazis, taking note of their German inventory numbers.

In The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher, art historian and curator David Pullins masterfully interrogates the status of the image as an object in eighteenth-century French art. Rose Valland ...