Mirror Selfies and Art History
Neoclassical selfies? Check.
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French art
Marie-Antoinette’s Swiveling Armchair Is the New Centerpiece of Neoclassical Furniture Gallery
Marie-Antoinette’s armchair gets the royal treatment.
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Édouard Manet’s Spring Joins the Getty Museum Galleries
For Manet, fashion and the femininity were metaphors for the skilled artifice of painting itself.
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What Do Paleographers Do?
It’s nothing to do with fossils—paleographers are specialists in old handwriting.
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What Time Is It? In the Collection, It’s Always 10:10
For the clocks in the Getty Museum’s collection, time stands eternally still.
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Fragonard’s “Fantasy Portrait” of Dashing French Duke on Temporary Loan
A dashing portrait of an 18th-century duke by Fragonard visits the Getty.
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18th-Century Art for the 21st-Century Classroom
What can you do with French decorative arts, paper, and scissors?
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A Strange and Wonderful Vase at Family Art Lab
A nine-foot-tall vase decorated with feathers, snails, and branches is the focus artwork.
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Fragonard’s “Les Beignets”: How Much Sweeter Can Life Be?
In this time of uncertainty, art can bring pleasure to the eye, nourishment to the mind, and also solace to the heart. A work... Read More
The Italian Comedians Go on View in Elegant Company
The Getty Museum’s most recent painting acquisition, Jean-Antoine Watteau’s The Italian Comedians, is now on view at the Getty Center. It’s installed in Gallery... Read More
Watteau’s Serious Clown Comes to the Getty
Antoine Watteau is famous for his theatrical pictures of the 18th-century French megarich at their elegant balls and fêtes galantes. Theater of a different... Read More
Masterpiece of the Week: A Cabinet That’s Proudly Over the Top
This is not your run-of-the-aristocratic-mill cupboard. J. Paul Getty, who had a passion for French decorative arts, listed this cabinet—our current Masterpiece of the... Read More