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French artist Elisabeth Louise Vig茅e Le Brun

Today, smiles are seen as an indication of friendliness, happiness, or affection. However, for most of recorded art history, artists鈥 representations of the wide smile ...
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Postman Cheval’s Ideal Palace

The Palais Id茅al du Facteur Cheval is one of the most extraordinary buildings in France. A palace built from pebbles by a postman – an ...
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Pierre-Joseph Redout茅: The Raphael of Botanica

It was in June of 1840, the month of roses, when Pierre-Joseph Redout茅 died suddenly at the age of eighty. His coffin was laid to ...
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A doorway to the Belle Epoque in Paris

The mere mention of the word 鈥楶aris鈥 can conjure a vision of rows of handsome Hausmann stone buildings – some of them sober and classically ...
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The Art of Analogue Modernism

Artist Sonia Delauney moved to Paris from the Ukraine in the early 1900s where her art was hugely influential… When we think of the defining ...
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Winston Churchill’s love of painting on the French Riviera

In 2015, artist Paul Rafferty began a project to find the locations of Sir Winston Churchill鈥檚 painting locations for a book. His focus was the ...
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Georges Seurat and the art of pointillism

In the 1880s, French artist Georges Seurat was using tiny points of colour to create paintings that conveyed a sense of calmness, including slowly flowing ...
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The classified arts of France

Every now and again, when chatting to French friends they鈥檒l drop in a sentence that contains the words 鈥渢he 7th Art鈥 or maybe 鈥渢he 9th ...
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Carrieres de Lumieres, sound and light shows Paris and Provence

聽What do an abandoned quarry and an old iron foundry have in common? They both house magical sound-and-light shows that must be seen to be ...
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In the footsteps of the Impressionists on the Alabaster Coast of France

Claude Monet’s paintings of the Alabaster coast in Normandy, and in particular Etretat, are hung on the walls of the most prestigious art museums throughout ...
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