The J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting the first major exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte in the United States. Caillebotte ...

“Greenwich Mean Time was established in 1884, in no small part because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other subjects.

The works trace back to “en plein air,” or outside open-air painting, that began in Europe, specifically France, in the 19th ...

The humble dwellings offer a fascinating insight into the spartan reality of French rural life in the mid-19th century. The photographer was Édouard Baldus, who abandoned his unsuccessful painting ...