The French head of state and First Lady pondered over masterpieces such as The Milkmaid and The Lacemaker

Collectors tend towards safety in times of trouble—and current uncertainty is causing a shift in buying habits

Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera have been blown up and pasted in high definition on the walls of the Humanitas hospital in Ronzano to improve patients' well-being

Manhattan-based Christopher Bishop Fine Art has purchased the fair

The sector could benefit from cross-over buyers influenced by fashion designers and institutions looking to diversify collections

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Scholars have pieced together separate parts of painting after 200 years

Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist

As the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster brings together an unprecedented number of works by the Old Master, paintings including a self-portrait are still missing

A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph

Mayor of Amiens in France asks pop star to loan work believed to be by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, spotted in a photograph of her home

The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots

Despite works the collection of film producer Jacqui Eli Safra that were enticingly offered with no reserves, the auction house’s two marquee sales fell short of expectations

Organisers of Gallerie d’Italia show have given full attributions to four works on loan from public and private collections in the US and UK

My heart-stopping research saga to find out if Dorotheum’s part-painted cartoon by a "follower" was in fact a sleeper

After seven years of investigations, Ruffini has been handed over to French authorities, likely setting the stage for a trial in Paris

Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December

Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention

Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio

Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna

Painstaking restoration of Italian master’s revered painting reveals its full glory once more

Martin Clayton, the Royal Collection Trust's head of prints and drawings presented his research at a major conference in Leipzig

The French dealer, who is under investigation for selling a series of allegedly forged paintings, has had a warrant out for his arrest since 2019

At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display

The work, housed at The Hague's Museum Bredius, will now undergo further study by Rijksmuseum experts

Plus, a horror show in London and a Flemish masterpiece in Bruges

Ten works from the collection of Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson will be on offer during the Master’s Week sales in January

The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998

Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York