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18th-Century Drawing Rescued From a Dumpster Shatters Estimates at Auction

One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink ...
Berkshire Eagle

REVIEW: At The Clark, an exhibition of never-before-seen 18th-century drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Typically, when experts think of drawings from this period, the male nude is the most familiar image, says Clark-Getty Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin, who spent time in Paris working alongside the ...
Hyperallergic

The Mysteriously Tiny Drawings of an 18th-Century Artist, Born Without Hands or Feet

Matthias Buchinger, Elias Baeck, German, Laybach, “Augsburg Portrait of Matthias Buchinger with Vignettes Print” (1717), engraving sheet, 7 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (all images courtesy the Metropolitan ...
CBS News

Soldiers' drawings — including depiction of possible hanging of Napoleon — found on 18th century castle door

A wooden door discovered recently on the upper floor of a French Revolution-era watchtower offers an intimate look at the lives of British soldiers who spent hours at a time stationed there during the ...
Artnet

Renoir’s Long-Hidden Drawings Return to the Spotlight After 100 Years

Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...
MutualArt.com

Irish School, 18th Century

Two albums of 90 drawings of views in and around, Co. Wicklow, Co. Dublin, Co. Kildare. Co. Westmeath, Co. Antrim, Co. Kilkenny, Co. Carlow, and views in North Wales ...
Hyperallergic

From 18th-Century Tool Chest to 21st-Century Public Art Project

The first sight to greet arrivals at Rochester Station is a floating accommodation block on the River Medway. With an unfortunate resemblance to a prison ship, it reminds you of the salty Dickensian ...
MutualArt.com

Dutch School, 18th Century

The 2025 record price for Dutch School, 18th Century was for A DUTCH WALNUT, EBONY, EBONISED, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND IVORY MARQUETRY CONSOLE TABLE Y The 2024 record price for Dutch School, 18th Century ...
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Excavating Design: 18th-Century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection

This selection of 18th-century European drawings and prints of ancient Rome from the museum's expansive collection features works by such artists as Giovanni Panini, Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, and ...
Raleigh News & Observer

Rare Rembrandt drawings on display, many for first time, at Ackland Art Museum in NC

Rembrandt’s “Landscape with Canal and Boats” will be on display at the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, N.C. as part of “Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck ...
CNN

Art historians try to identify enslaved Black child in an 18th-century portrait

A year ago this month, when it was still closed to the public because of the pandemic, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) took a major step toward interrogating a controversial 18th-century group ...