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 ...
One of the 18th century's most renowned silversmiths in Ireland was Carden Terry of Cork and this pair of George III oval sauceboats dated circa 1780 came from his workshop. Their elaborate foliate ...
When Madame du Barry, King Louis XV’s last mistress, pleaded for “just a little moment more” before her execution in 1793, in the throes of the French Revolution, she seemed to capture the fleeting ...