Annette Messager is a celebrated contemporary French installation artist. Working in a conceptual and feminist practice, Messager examines conventional perceptions of women by individuals and by ...
Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (1797–1892) a French painter and graphic artist known as Henriquel, began his engraving studies at age seventeen after four years in a painter’s studio. Henriquel has ...
Jean-Michel Othoniel is a contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media. Employing materials such as glass, wax, and sulphur, Othoniel explores ideas of material transformation. “I want ...
Ramsay was influenced by the pastel technique of contemporary French artists like Quentin de la Tour, but was also dedicated to a natural style of portraiture based on direct observation. This vivid ...
For 35 leading painters who lived in France during the first century of modern art, this paper uses textbook illustrations as the basis for measuring the importance of both painters and individual ...