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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of Louis XV of France at about age ten ca. 1720-21 pastel Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of singer Faustina Bordoni ca. 1724-25 pastel Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
"While the guest of French banker Pierre Crozat in Paris, Rosalba Carriera created portraits of Louis XV as a child and of other members of the French aristocracy and court. While there, she developed a friendship with Antoine Watteau, who had a significant impact on her work. She, in turn, had a formative influence on Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Jean-Etienne Liotard, and other important pastel painters. King George III collected her works, and Frederick-Augustus II, elector of Saxony, filled a room in his Dresden palace with more than one hundred of her pastels [including those reproduced above]."
– curator's notes from the Getty Museum
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| Maurice-Quentin de La Tour Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux 1739-41 pastel and gouache on paper mounted on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Maurice-Quentin de La Tour Portrait of Pierre-Louis Laideguive 1761 pastel Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona |
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Portrait of Jean-Louis Buisson-Boissier ca. 1762-66 pastel on vellum Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Portrait of John, Lord Mountstuart 1763 pastel on vellum Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| François Boucher Standing Model ca. 1750 pastel Albertina, Vienna |
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| François Boucher Portrait of Madame de Pompadour 1754 pastel National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin Self-portrait with visor ca. 1776 pastel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Paul Delaroche Portrait of Madame de Therville ca. 1828-30 pastel Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Edgar Degas Young woman in blue 1884 pastel Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Edgar Degas After the bath ca. 1884-86 pastel Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre |
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| Édouard Manet Woman wearing a hat with silk gauze 1881 pastel Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan |
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| Édouard Manet Portrait of Méry Laurent ca. 1882 pastel Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo |