Icons loom large in the mind, but sometimes they’re tiny in person. That’s the case with “Odalisque,” the teensy painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) acquired a few days ago by the ...

This leading lady of the Frick's collection will be back on view in New York when the museum reopens this April. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Comtesse d’Haussonville (1845). Courtesy of the Frick ...

PARIS — Who exactly was Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -- a reactionary or a modernist visionary? His Romantic contemporaries scorned his painting as too cold, too academic and too traditional. And yet ...

Since most of the world-acknowledged masterpieces of painting are now safely behind museum walls, the few prizes that remain for big art hunters are all tagged, numbered and precisely located. A ...

Ingres’s portrait of the Comtesse d’Haussonville at the Frick Collection is one of the most celebrated paintings in America Louise de Broglie, as she was still then known, was in her 20s when she met ...

The Riverbend neighborhood's Burthe Street epitomizes the area's sedate, leafy aura on its 14-block stretch from the fitness center at Leake Avenue by the Mississippi River levee to the Tulane Muslim ...

It's said that Pablo Picasso once observed, "Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal." Or appropriate? Filch? Quote? Pinch? Steal gets right to it though. But in the case of these two great artists ...