Indigenous leaders exchanged gifts and wisdom about the land and animals with their French and English allies during the 16th through 18th centuries. These exchanges had lasting implications.

The haul at Christie’s annual sales of 19th-century American art almost quadrupled, from 2022, when they earned $4.96 million, to $19.2 million in January. There’s more on the horizon.

Christie’s will auction off a collection of rare 18th- and 19th-century American books and manuscripts belonging to Bruce M. Lisman later this month.

David Pullins, a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de ...

It’s not obvious that this painting should open an exhibition about Blackness in 18th- and 19th-century American visual culture. There are no Black people in the painting, nor is there any ...

In addition to the Zoffany, the museum announced the purchase of an important watercolor by the 19th-century French painter Eugene Delacroix, and “The Gift,” a series of 48 watercolor ...