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This Painting of Lounging Lions Was Hanging in a Family’s Living Room. It Turned Out to Be an Original Delacroix
Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a ...
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Painting Hung in Family Home for 150 Years—Then They Discovered Its Value
A rare piece of art has been uncovered in an unexpected place by a French auctioneer ... an original oil-on-canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix, one of France's greatest 19th-century Romantic ...
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These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman
“Greenwich Mean Time was established in 1884, in no small part because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in ...
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What can impressionist art teach us about climate change?
The Musée d’Orsay is partnering with 12 museums around France in a project that uses impressionist art to highlight climate ...