The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum says a condom believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "depicts both the playful and the serious side of sexual health." ...

An 1861 painting by a little-known female artist has just been bought by the Manchester Art Gallery for £130,000. While its satirical depiction of the inferior roles assigned to working women is ...

When Victorian art fell out of fashion in the early 20th century, one man began collecting it, and now some of his ...

Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), pictured here, reflect a sense of unease over a modernizing society that was sweeping women up in its fray. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of R.B.F. Barr ...

The “Paris effect”, as Hauser & Wirth president Marc Payot put it, was in full swing as the third Art Basel Paris opened to VIPs yesterday at the newly renovated Grand Palais—the fair’s ...

The coded language of floriography meant that Victorians could secretly express affection, desire or disdain. Now the language of flowers is popular again, writes Emma Flint.

Colette, who is now known by the persona Colette Lumiere, has occupied an ever-changing set of guises over the decades. The first shift came in in 1978, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, when ...

The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.

While the Art Institute of Chicago has long had one of the top collections of 19 th-century French art in the world, a “transformative” donation of artworks announced Tuesday will give the ...