Auguste Sébastien Philippe Bernardel (1798-1870)

With numerous preemptions of objets d'art connected with his family, a new chapter of history is being written for "Le Roi des Français." Welcome to the gallery of the Orléans.

Émile Friant met up again with Madame Paul in 1899 and produced this fine piece of 1900 painting, acclaimed anew.

Versailles is seeking to move away from its Bourbon-centric image to shed light on the transformations of the 19th century.

Sébastien Stoskopff (1597-1657) was a still life painter who excelled at rendering materials, raising this work to the rank of a vanity.

Saint James the Great is a sensual interlude in the art of Champaigne (1602-1674), a portraitist who found favor at court and became a painter of the New Testament after 1640.

The Chateau of Versailles hastened to exercise its right of preemption to acquire a pen and ink drawing that tells its story. The French institution paid €1,995 for a Procession at Versailles, a work by Sébastien Leclerc (1637-1714), the king's ordinary engraver who died a year before Louis XIV.

One of the great French figures of the pastry world, whose stores in Paris, London and Tokyo are always full, also has an appetite for art.

Mobiles were a natural part of Philippe Hiquily's lifelong explorations of balance.

The Director of the Fesch Palace Museum, curator of Ajaccio’s museums and authority on 16th-century Italian painting has written a fascinating book on Napoleon’s tastes, from Jacques-Louis David to the Trianon and the secrets of the Empire style.

Auguste Herbin’s abstract work is based on his visual alphabet, a true compendium of his theories.