Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's A Large Group of Punchinelli is expected to fetch more than $200,000 at auction. Courtesy of Dreweatts It might seem strange for someone to misplace a work of art worth ...

In the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, a young woman, Belle, dances and sings inside a magical castle where inanimate objects come to life. The cast of characters includes a French-accented ...

Though young viewers may not realize it, the animators of some of Disney’s most memorable films drew deeply from European visual culture. In “Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative ...

If you've noticed a remarkable amount of pastels in fall, people wearing a surprising number of impractical yet whimsical accessories, or an abundance of shells and flowers motifs, don't worry, babe.

In May, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, opened the exhibition America Collects 18th-Century French Painting (until 20 August). The show, which includes 68 pictures, looks at the ...

“Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant,” at the Met, feels strangely timely. The rococo genius Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) would fit snugly into our present art world. You might even call the French ...