Piles of plump cucumbers, juicy watermelons and ripe tomatoes fill the paintings by little-known Spanish artist Luis Melendez to advertise nature’s bounty.

arts entertainment Visual Arts. Kimbell Art Museum acquires a Chardin still-life after yearslong quest “The Cut Melon,” a rare oval-shaped painting by the 18th-century French artist Jean ...

The painting is a gift from Sid R. Bass in honor of Kay and Ben Fortson, long-time leaders of the Kimbell Art Foundation’s board of directors. Kimbell acquires 18th century work ‘Still Life ...

Two of the most famous Frenchwomen of the 18th century have long been associated with the Frick Collection Madame de Pompadour and Madame Du Barry, both mistresses of kings, who commissioned the pa… ...

Marquise de Grollier, Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes, 1780. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dorian Batycka August 23, 2022 Share Share This Article ...

In the early 1990s, thieves hunted down Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s celebrated 18th-century still life The White Duck, and absconded with it, along with several antique clocks.

Auctions An Unassuming Chardin Strawberry Painting Fetches a Record-Shattering $26.8 Million at Auction, Shocking Market-Watchers. The luminous 18th-century still life is the only known instance ...

The 17 large pictures in the show, more than half painted when the artist was still in his 20s and all of them completed before he was 40 (he lived to almost 70), generally show life-size men and ...

That painting depicts a riverside landscape and a group of subjects, including the famous 18th-century English actor and playwright, David Garrick. The Cleveland painting has an impeccable ...

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has ...