Inside the MFAH Posts tagged #19th-century


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  • Delacroix - Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
    A World-Famous Rediscovery March 30, 2020

    A long-lost painting by revered 19th-century artist Eugène Delacroix resurfaced in Paris last year and is now on view at the MFAH.

  • winterhalter exhibition installation
    Winterhalter, Meet Worth May 11, 2016
    Fashionable women all across 19th-century Europe once clamored to pose for Franz X. Winterhalter, because what could be trendier than a portrait by the painter who could best capture the delicate elegance of a chic gown designed by Charles Frederick Worth, the world’s first couturier? The clientele of the two overlapped considerably, as Worth designed extensively for Napoleon III’s court and …