The 15-odd pastels presented within the museum's collections pay tribute to two great 18th-century pastel artists: Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783).
Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1808), Presumed Portrait of Lady Carhampton, née La Touche, as Emma, Matthew Prior's "Nut-Brown Maid", c. 1775, gouache and pastel on paper, 84 x 55 cm/33 x 21.7 in. Musée Cognacq-Jay.
Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1808), Presumed Portrait of Lady Carhampton, née La Touche, as Emma, Matthew Prior's "Nut-Brown Maid", c. 1775, gouache and pastel on paper, 84 x 55 cm/33 x 21.7 in. Musée Cognacq-Jay.
The 15-odd pastels presented within the museum's collections pay tribute to two great 18th-century pastel artists: Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783). The former, dubbed the "Prince of Pastelists", was the favorite portraitist…
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