Painted sometime between 1767 and 1768, The Swing is a painting consummately devoted to visual pleasures. The swing, with its crimson seat, hangs within a lushly grown garden. Trees, gnarled and ...

NEW YORK — Jean Honoré Fragonard, whose work as a draftsman is the subject of a stately show at the Metropolitan Museum, in New York, survived the French Revolution. But he was by no means a central ...

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 ...

A “forgotten” painting kept in the same family for generations has sold for 7.68 million euros ($9.1 million) at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French painter Jean-Honoré ...

“It was a thunderbolt,” says curator Yuriko Jackall, a specialist in 18th-century French art, describing the 2012 discovery at a Paris auction house of a previously unknown drawing by Jean Honoré ...

As Old Masters rebound at auction, the 18th-century style's language of pleasure, intimacy and deflection might also be resurfacing culturally and in the market.

Art is long but lockdowns are short – even if they seem interminable. With museums and galleries closed, or open by appointment only, this presents a rare opportunity to trawl back over the history of ...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing has become even more saucy and titillating. The Wallace Collection’s painting has been cleaned, removing darkened varnish, and the wide-eyed young woman now appears ...

Fragonard, the beauty and lifestyle brand that channels the charm of southern France, has ventured into a new territory. This month it opened a guest house, called Maison Fragonard, at 7/9 Rue du ...

I'm not sure a picture is worth a thousand words. But why do some pictures sell for millions and others that seem identical go for just a few dollars? Since February, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in ...