Paintings

How the partnership between Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and the queen of France began as an exhilarating adventure and ended in tragedy

This volume positions Josefa de Óbidos as part of a broader legacy of early modern women artists

What fashion trends are captured in Getty’s collections? Five curators choose favorites from antiquity through the 18th century

A Getty graduate intern visits the galleries to reflect on the connections between identity, displacement, and climate

The favorite artist of Marie Antoinette overcame gender barriers, personal heartbreak, and political turmoil to become one of the greatest portrait painters of all time

Getty curators explore the meaning behind artists’ signatures—those flamboyant, modest, or provocatively hidden final flourishes

From animal glue to beeswax, get to know unseen elements of painting conservation

Five years after surviving an explosion in Beirut, Hercules and Omphale goes on view in a display focused on the artist’s portrayal of strong women

We asked Paul Perrin of the Musée d’Orsay and art historian Jonathan Katz why this was a radical act in 19th-century France.

Art historian Paris Spies-Gans uncovers art’s unsung “sheroes,” moving them to the forefront of the canon