Charles Topino (1742-1803)

The furniture-maker’s signature pieces included small Transition-style bonheurs-du-jour inlaid with dainty marquetry of vases, bowls, cards and other utensils of lettered people.

Under the leadership of its director, Mathieu Deldicque, the Musée Condé-Château de Chantilly is staging the very first exhibition in France devoted to the famous cabinetmaker. An opportunity to admire André-Charles Boulle's finest creations and identify his pieces more accurately.

This previously unidentified canvas is the only known painted sketch of Charles Meynier's masterpiece Télémaque, pressé par Mentor, quitte l’île de Calypso (Telemachus, Urged on by Mentor, Leaves Calypso's Island), which earned him an auction record.

Explorer Paul Marcoy's account of a trip to Peru inspired this vivid canvas full of exotic birds.

An exciting exhibition examining the reign of Charles VII at the musée de Cluny in Paris sheds light on the missing link between International Gothic and the French Renaissance, a period richer and more complex than it might seem.

Part one of the dispersal of the T. library will feature many works by the French fabulist, notably this famous 18th-century illustrated edition.

The only piece of furniture made by cabinetmaker Charles Cressent (1685-1768) for the French King, this commode is listed with the Garde-Meuble and has belonged to the same collection since 1934.

Photographs from the turn of the 20th century reveal images of an Amazonia now lost and yet not necessarily a paradise.

The sculptor of the Second French Empire, Charles Cordier, produced a large number of Orientalist busts and statues. Our two master models were used to create emblematic works.

The Elbeuf Lions Club charity auction will once again feature a fine selection of painters from the Rouen School, led by a striking landscape by Charles Fréchon.