Pastel
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A pastel is an art medium that consists of powdered pigment and a binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms. The pigments
William Merritt Chase, Study of Flesh Color and Gold, 1888, National Gallery of Art
Maurice Quentin de La Tour, a bravura pastel portrait of Louis XV, 1748
Commercial oil pastels
Odilon Redon, Baronne de Domecy, c. 1900, pastel and graphite on light brown laid paper, J. Paul Getty Museum
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour was a French painter who specialised in portrait painting using pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XV, a
Pastel
…for portrait painting, sometimes in a mixed technique with gouache. Pastel was an important medium for artists such as Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Maurice Quentin de La Tour (who never painted in oils), and Rosalba Carriera. The pastel still life paintings and portraits of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin are much admired, as…
Self-portrait with Lace Jabot (c. 1751)
Voltaire
Madame de Pompadour
Jean-Jacques Rousseau