The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.

The Louvre, where the efforts to safeguard Paris’s most valuable art included taking 50 important pieces—including the Mona Lisa and the French crown jewels—off the walls.

French art from the 16th into the early 19th centuries, the finest in America, is coming to the Art Institute of Chicago as a gift from the Horvitzes. This is big news.

Last month, the Art Institute of Chicago announced that it had received a “transformative gift” of French Old Master art from Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz. The works in the gift hail from the ...

While the Art Institute of Chicago has long had one of the top collections of 19 th -century French art in the world, a “transformative” donation of artworks announced Tuesday will give the ...