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A View of Venice in San Francisco

Take a tour of a new work in our collection.

By Emily Beeny

Article European paintings Acquisitions
A Renaissance Mystery: Investigating Corneille de Lyon’s “Portrait of a Man”

Exploring a painting’s unanswered questions.

By Georgia Brabec

Article European paintings Behind the scenes
Victoria Dubourg and the Louvre: The Museum as School for Female Artists

By Isabella Holland

Article European paintings
Renewal Among the Ruins: Vigée Le Brun in Exile

Vigée Le Brun developed a highly sought-after style of portraiture.

By Isabella Holland

Article European paintings
Conserving Boucher: A Painting’s Relationship to Tapestry Production

The Paintings Conservation department undertook a three-year treatment of François Boucher’s Vertumnus and Pomona.

By Elise Effmann Clifford, Kathryn Harada, and Sarah Kleiner

Article Conservation Making European paintings
Séances And Spiritualism: The Visions of James Tissot

Tissot’s most personally meaningful work was as a visionary religious artist.

By Melissa Buron

Article European paintings Belief
The Impresario: Degas ‒ Or Tissot?

James Tissot: Fashion + Faith is the first major reassessment of Tissot’s career in over 20 years.

By Anthea Callen

Article European paintings
Tissot’s Fascination with Fashion

James Tissot grew up in a household attuned to fashion.

By Justine De Young

Article Fashion European paintings
Rubens in the Royal Menagerie

Rubens’s painting Daniel in the Lions’ Den is a favorite of visitors.

By Alexandra Libby

Article European paintings
A Tarantino-Like Taste for the Macabre

Rubens’s interest in dark subject matter is evident in his riveting Head of Medusa.

By Corrinne Chong with Petr Tomášek

Article European paintings
Transits: A Wife and Husband Reunited

In this edition of Transits, a series that looks at the movement of art in the Museums’ galleries, we’re highlighting three paintings by Peter Paul Rubens.

Article European paintings
Memorable Rejections: Monet and the Artist’s Struggle, Part Two

Bay Area artists on their most memorable rejections and the paths that unfolded after their early setbacks.

Article European paintings Community

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