Pastels in the Musée du Louvre 17th - 18th Centuries - Exhibition catalogue
Pastels in the Musée du Louvre 17th - 18th Centuries - Exhibition catalogue
Pastels in the Musée du Louvre 17th - 18th Centuries - Exhibition catalogue (English)

Pastels in the Musée du Louvre 17th - 18th Centuries - Exhibition catalogue

MX628289
The Musée du Louvre boasts an exceptional collection of 17th- and 18th-century European pastels. Due to their fragility, there have been scant opportunities to view and learn from these spectacular artworks. This in-depth examination of the collection, reproduced here for the first time in color, delves...
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Characteristics

Dimensions
25,7 x 29,2 x 3 cm
Artists
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788), Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766)
Museum
Musée du Louvre
Art movements
18th century, 17th century
English
Reference
MX630040
EAN
9780300238631
French
Reference
MX628289
EAN
9782754114547
Size of the book
Paperback with flap
Editor
Hazan - Louvre éditions
Publication date
2018-06-20

Babelio Reviews

5 / 5
jvermeer 12/15/19
***** « PASTELS du Musée du Louvre 17e et 18e siècles » est l'exposition phare du Louvre en 2018. Le Louvre a la chance de posséder la plus importante collection mondiale de pastels des 17e et 18...Read more...

The work and its artist

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842)

Vigée Le Brun's self-portraits abound: paintings, pastels and drawings elegantly combine grace and feminine pride. As the Ancien Régime and its fine arts institution came to an end, the artist supplanted most of his portrait competitors. Her desire to overcome the constraints imposed on women artists allows her to develop a very personal technique and aesthetic criteria: she masters the science of colour and invents a whole range of poses and costumes that allow her to bring a great variety to her portraits and improvisations.
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