Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death (around 1788), created by Guillaume Lethière when he was in his 20s, helped make the artist’s name Courtesy Clark Art Institute Neo-Classicism, arguably the ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced last week that it has acquired a work by the 19th-century French painter Sophie Frémiet—the first by the artist to join a US museum’s collection.