Debucourt's Celebrated 1787 Print of the Palais Royal in a Period Frame

This Meiji-period color woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912) depicts three elegant female courtiers in traditional dress taking refreshments. Th...

This 16th century French engraving illustrates an episode in the Trojan War – although the actual one illustrated is in question. According to recent scholarship, it depicts the corp...

Misia Sert, a musical prodigy who once played the piano on Franz List’s knee, grew up to be a beauty, and remained the apogee of chic until she died at seve...

Paul Poiret's career began in the Belle Epoque, when fashion was defined by imprisoning corsets, restrictive tailoring, and ethereal colors. Opening his own fashion house in 1904, he...

According to Japanese folklore the fox, or kitsune, can assume human form to protect and trick humble country folk. Dating to the 18th century, this fox protects its own pup. Carved ...

This haunting image by Eugene Berman was painted on a sheet of paper cut in the shape of a heart, mounted to a paint-speckled ground, encircled with metal shavings, and placed in a frame of the artist’s own devising. Berman wrote the title, Radiograph of a Heart, on the back. It refers to the medical X-rays that doctors had recently come to rely on. Yet Berman’s point seems to be that while a heart can be monitored scientifically, the emotions associated with it lie beyond the power of medical science. Russian by birth, Berman fled St. Petersburg during the Revolution and settled in Paris. Later, as a Jew, he fled the Nazi advance and took refuge in New York and Hollywood. His peace of mind, however, was shattered by the suicide of his wife, actress Una Munson (who played Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind). That distressing event — “Don’t follow me” she admonished in her suicide note...

Antique print titled 'De Nieuwe Koornbeurs, in 1786'. Original antique print of the 'Korenbeurs' in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Korenbeurs ("grain bourse") was a 17th-century commodity market in Amsterdam where grain was traded. The building stood on the banks of the Amstel, on the western side (Nieuwezijde) of the Damrak. It was directly south of the Oude Brug bridge, on a spot now occupied by the former stock and commodity exchange Beurs van Berlage...

Antique print titled 'De Nieuwe Schouwburg, van vooren, in 1786'. View of the 'Nieuwe Schouwburg' (New Theatre) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Published 1787. Artists and Engraver...

Antique print titled 'De Nieuwe Muider-Poort, van binnen, in 1786'. View of the 'Nieuwe Muiderpoort' in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Published 1787. Artists and Engravers: Publishe...

Antique print titled 'The procession of Queen Elizabeth to St. Paul's Cathedral (..)'. Engraving of the procession of Queen Elizabeth to St. Paul's cathedral to return thanks for the...

Antique print titled 'Interiore des Opernhauses in Paris (Grand Bal Masque)'. View of the Palais Garnier or Opéra Garnier, France. Originates from 'Meye...

Rare, antique Parisian lithograph from the mid-19th century.