Medieval wall paintings considered the finest of their type surviving from late 13th-century France, with close style links ...

Manet challenges the accepted function of art in France, which is to glorify history and the French state, and creates what some consider the first modern painting. His model, Victorine Meurent ...

She said the painting bore witness to the "broken lives" of the Nazi era. The French state bought the work, its only Klimt, in 1980 without realising its history. The pre-war owner of Rosiers sous ...

A French woman has ended her legal battle ... accompanied by a plaque outlining Mrs Meyer's family history. The dispute centred around a painting of a shepherdess by Impressionist artist Camille ...