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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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19th-century paintings show first hints of post-industrial climate change
The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict ... was to preserve in oil paint the view about to be destroyed by the forthcoming construction of ...
Painting Hung in Family Home for 150 Years—Then They Discovered Its Value
Auctioneer Malo de Lussac stumbled on a true treasure: an original oil-on-canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix, one of France's greatest 19th-century Romantic artists. The piece, titled Study of ...
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The Two Faces of Stańczyk: Surprising Aspects of 19th-Century Polish Painting
The September 2019 Louvre-Lens Museum exhibition showcases some of the most famous paintings in the history of Polish art ... for a large group of Polish painters in the middle of the 19th century.