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The names I quoted above constitute a brief
but daxzling Hst of the masters of the pastel, and

the French School. For who would dare assert
that Roslin, the Swede, and Liotard, the wandering
Turk—or, rather, Swiss—did not gather all the
force of their talent, all the skill of their technique,
from the counsels of the French masters ? More-
over, were they not real Frenchmen by adoption ?
And did not Liotard himself turn to Parisian life


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among these honoured names those of Latour, of
La Rosalba, and of Perronneau stand out with a
special lustre.
La Rosalba Carriera apart (an artist who
has remained Venetian, although she had as her
Hrst master the painter, Jean St&ve, and was
received by the Paris Academy of Painting in
1720), all the names I have mentioned belong to
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for his liveliest and subtlest artistic sensations,
midway between a journey to the shores of the
Bosphorus and a sojourn at the Court of Maria-
Theresa? As for Roslin, he livedyor more than
half a Century in Paris, and never showed the least
desire to see again the sad skies of Malmoe. He
exhibited at all the Louvre Saions up tili 1791,
was received by the Academie de Peinture in