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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Art is long but lockdowns are short – even if they seem interminable. With museums and galleries closed, or open by appointment only, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. At the Fragonard Museum in the southeast of Paris, human fetuses dance a jig alongside ...

In 2016, two paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard were unearthed in a Normandy chateau after languishing in obscurity for over 200 years. Following a blocked export license, a declaration of national ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opening July 6, Fragonard's latest museum in Arles is the story of two dynasties united by friendship, a love for heirloom crafts and a knack for collecting. On one side are the French beauty and ...