Collecting Guides

Rigaud, Tocqué and the French Rococo Portrait

One built the image of absolute monarchy, the other perfected the honest likeness. What after Rigaud and follower of Tocqué really mean on a painting.

Collecting 18th-Century French Portraits

Everyone who mattered in eighteenth-century France needed to be painted, and the great portraitists ran workshops to meet the demand. What the attribution terms mean, how to date a canvas without a...