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Pastels & pastellists
ESSAYS
The online edition of the Dictionary now includes more than 2000 articles on pastellists with lists as complete as possible of their works. The scope for discussion of specific works is necessarily limited within this format, and a series of in-depth essays on specific works is indexed from this page. These essays range from 500 to 15,000 words, and discuss individual works in museums and private collections in a format appropriate to a scholarly catalogue. Some are based on articles the author has published elsewhere. Other articles discuss different aspects of major pastellists' work (e.g. La Tour, Perronneau or Litoard), often including a level of biographical detail (reproducing original documents etc.) inappropriate in a Dictionary article. A further group of essays discuss broader topics. The essays include a selection of articles that have been posted on my blog where it is appropriate to have a document of record for permanent reference.
Articles on specific works (in chronological order):
Vivien, Pierre Richelet, c.1689
Vivien, Jacques Thuret, 1704
Rosalba's portrait of John Law, 1720
Les portraits des princesses de Bourbon-Condé par Rosalba Carriera, 1721
Lundberg, Simon Hurtrelle, c.1725
Carriera, Gustavus, Lord Boyne, 1731
Chevalier, attr., Louis-Joseph, prince de Grimberghen, 1732
La Tour and Lundberg's portraits of La princesse de Rohan, c.1741
La Tour, Le président de Rieux, c.1741
La Tour and L'abbé Huber, lisant, 1742
Nattier, René-Charles de Maupeou, c.1744
La Tour, Duval de L'Épinoy, 1745
Perronneau, Les trois "marquis d'Aubais", 1746
Glain, Noel-Thomas Duguey, 1748
Perronneau, M. & Mme Ollivier, 1748
La Joconde du XVIIIe siecle [Perronneau, Mme de Sorquainville, oil, 1749]
La Tour, Autoportait au jabot, 1750
La Tour, Mlle Puvigné, c.1750
Valade, Mme Pinson de Menerville, 1751
La Tour, Mlle Ferrand méditant sur Newton, 1752
Vigée, Le marquis de Bonnac, 1752
Liotard, L'Écriture deciphered, 1752
Liotard, Le Déjeuner Lavergne, 1754
Two English portraits by Liotard: Lady Anne Somerset and Catherine, Lady Hawke
Perronneau, Col. Joseph Yorke, oil, 1754
La Tour, Mme de Pompadour, 1755
Pougin de Saint-Aubin, La duchesse de Saulx-Tavannes, c.1755
Perronneau, Two portraits of the Journu family, 1756–57
La Tour, L'abbé Pommyer, c.1757
Lion, Le marquis de Houchin, 1758
Frey, Madame Sophie de France, 1766
Valade, M. & Mme Faventines de Fontenilles, 1766
Perronneau, Pierre-Lazare Dumas, 1768
Mme Roslin, L'abbé Le Monnier, 1770
Read and Gardner, Some pastels of the Sturt family, c.1770–78
Gardner, The mystery of the second Lady East, 1774
Davesne, Bourlet de Vauxcelles, c.1775
Mosnier, La duchesse de Laval, c.1775
Labille-Guiard, Le chevalier de Gibert, 1776
Russell, Mrs Gumley, 1777
Roslin, M. & Mme Fries, 1778
Hall, Mme Séguier, c.1782
Ducreux, "Mme Poisson", c.1783
Labille-Guiard, Mme Mitoire et ses enfants, 1783
Mme Vigée Le Brun, Nicolas Beaujon, 1784
Boze, Pierre-Paul Nairac, 1786
Biographical articles on specific artists, sitters, inventors or collectors:
The mystery of Edmund Ashfield
Rosalba Carriera's journal, 1720–28
John Norris Hewett: a singular woman
Loriot, Pellechet, Jurine: the secrets of pastel, 1763
The fixer fixed: Loriot in Orléans
Perronneau: rectification d'erreur
Perronneau's trip to Lyon in 1759
In search of Perronneau's lost years (in Spain)
Mme veuve Perronneau's second marriage
Jean-Claude-Gaspard Sireul (1713-1781)
Claude-Léger Sorbet (1716-1788)
Mlle Thomasset: Liotard's copyist in needlework
Exhibition or book reviews:
Errata for the 2015 Liotard exhibition catalogue
Vigée Le Brun at the Grand Palais
Scrutinising L'Œil absolu, review of Salmon 2024
Articles are on more general topics:
Some absent-minded pastellists