19th-century art

Highlights from Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs

Getty’s senior curator of photographs walks you through a new show of previously unexhibited images.

Jim Ganz | December 17, 2019

Uncovering the identity of a mysterious old man who inhabits nineteenth-century French art.

Breanne Bradley | September 4, 2018

A new picture of modern Tunisia.

Ridha Moumni | June 15, 2017

Using the Egyptian window screen for staged photographs.

Felix Thürlemann | January 25, 2017

Landscapes of nature’s power.

These exuberant dancers contrast strongly with Degas’s earlier ethereal ballerinas

A contemporary artist demonstrates drawing techniques that make charcoal such an expressive medium.

Getty Media | April 15, 2016

Van Gogh your devices.

Ashley Medina | April 3, 2016

A fascination with darkness, insomnia, and dreams

How painters depicted darkness even as the world embraced artificial light

Jane Brox | November 19, 2015

Many ways to see a Van Gogh.

Chenglin Lee | July 29, 2015

For Manet, fashion and the femininity were metaphors for the skilled artifice of painting itself.

Scott Allan | November 25, 2014