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Pastels in the pandemic
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
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Author:
Jeffares, Neil (Jeffares, Neil)
Subjects
artists:
Vigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise / Carriera, Rosalba / Liotard, Jean-Etienne / La Tour, Maurice Quentin de / Vivien, Joseph
museums and institutions:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
subjects:
Pastels / Exhibition catalogues / Exhibitions / Collections / Biographies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757): The Queen of Pastel. By Angela Oberer. 324 pp. incl. 8 col. + 32 b. & w. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2020), £108. ISBN 978–94–6298–899–6. | :
subjects:
Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (9th October 2021–13th February 2022) | :
subjects:
Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (9th October 2021–13th February 2022) | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Diana the huntress, by Rosalba Carriera. c.1720–25. Pastel on blue paper, laid down on canvas, 61.5 by 48.5 cm. (Collection of Phoebe Cowles; photograph Gary Sexton).
Attributed works:
2. Portrait of a man and his dog, attributed to Jean-Étienne Liotard. c.1746–50. Pastel over graphite on five joined sheets of parchment, laid down on canvas, 114 by 86 cm. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; photograph Gary Sexton).
Attributed works:
3. Details of eyes in pastels by Vivien, Carriera, Liotard and La Tour from the Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen in raking light (left column) and in normal light (right column). (Photograph Ulrike Fischer).
Attributed works:
4. Self-portrait with fur hat, by Joseph Vivien. 1730. Pastel on two sheets of blue laid down on red-brown primed canvas, 80.1 by 64.2 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; photograph Sibylle Forster).
Attributed works:
5. Mademoiselle Ferrand meditates on Newton, by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. 1752. Pastel on blue paper, laid down on canvas, 74.2 by 60.7 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; photograph Sibylle Forster).
Attributed works:
6. Self-portrait, by Rosalba Carriera. c.1739. Pastel on paper, 31 by 25 cm. (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice).
Attributed works:
7. The breakfast, by Jean-Étienne Liotard. c.1752. Pastel on parchment, 67.3 by 54 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; photograph Sibylle Forster).
Attributed works:
8. Nymph from Apollo’s retinue, by Rosalba Carriera. 1721. Pastel on blue paper laid down on canvas, 62.9 by 56.3 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).