From Fragonard and Watteau to the Veil-Picard collection, today’s selective auction fervor for the 18th-century style reveals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...