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The 1880s saw Eugène Grasset begin a prolific output of ornate lettering, headers, typographic ornaments, and binding stamps. His partnership with Larousse, a…

François Bocion was not a regular portrait painter. The few works he did complete in the genre were mostly commissions. The number of…

This watercolour takes viewers into what eighteenth-century visitors believed to be the ruined villa of Caius Maecenas in Tivoli. The site is in…

Marguerite Burnat-Provins’s personality, like her artistic and literary work, encompassed two contradictory facets. She was born in Arras in northern France, married in…

Marguerite Burnat-Provins was the eldest of eight children born to a cultivated family in the Pas-de-Calais. She began drawing at the age of…

This painting of a wooded landscape is typical of French artist Philippe Cognée's work. It reflects his deep appreciation for nature, his use…

Félix Vallotton made his mark not only as a painter, but also as an illustrator, particularly in the decade from 1890 to 1900…

The spring of 1920 saw Gustave Buchet leave Geneva for Paris, where he was to spend the next twenty or so years. By…

Marius Borgeaud’s interiors are bathed in warm light that seems to bring time to a standstill. Each object is a solid, immediately identifiable…

This tapestry, made to hang over a door as a draught excluder, depicts a triumphal chariot face-on, showing the front of the carriage…

Vaud-born Ernest Biéler first visited the Valais village of Savièse in 1884, moving there to settle in 1900. From 1906 on, he became…

Alfred Chavannes trained as an artist with Alexandre Calame in Geneva, then Oswald Achenbach in Düsseldorf. He returned to Switzerland in 1874, building…

Blackfriars Bridge spans the Thames a few hundred metres from what is now Tate Modern. The Belgian artist Émile Claus chose a view…