“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.

Chicago collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz have donated 200 paintings, 50 sculptures and nearly 2,000 drawings by some of the biggest names in French art.

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

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

In the history of both painting and the culinary arts, late 19th-century France remains an unrivalled ... colonial forces at work in what is a French Algerian plantation of foreign fruit.