The Destruction of the Bastille,” an ink-wash drawing created just weeks after the Bastille fell during the French Revolution, will be on display at George Washington’s Mount Vernon for three ...

Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek ...

The French painter and draftsman, Jean Louis Prieur, the younger (1759-1795) is principally known for his drawings, a few shown here, of the French revolution. Engraved by Pierre Gabriel Berthault (ca ...

As revolution raged in the 1790s, French scientists replaced a chaotic system of weights and measures with an unified way to calibrate and calculate. Citizens use France’s new metric measures in ...

The drawing is set to be part of an auction in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 10. ... 1789, a few weeks after the July 14 uprising that launched the French Revolution.