DOI Heft:
No. 130 (January, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Dayot, Armand: The French pastellists of the eighteenth century
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0336
The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century
appearance. As well, it has been aptly said, might
one varnish a peach or a young girl's cheek. Ah
the pastel needs, to preserve its first freshness, is to
be protected from sunlight, from dust, and from
damp.
The names I quoted above constitute a brief
but dazzling list 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
FROM THE PASTEL HY QUENTIN I.ATOOR
(In the Rey-Spitzer Collection)
among these honoured names those of Latour, of for his liveliest and subtlest artistic sensations,
La Rosalba, and of Perronneau stand out with a midway between a journey to the shores of the
special lustre. Bosphorus and a sojourn at the Court of Maria-
La Rosalba Camera apart (an artist who Theresa? As for Roslin, he lived for more than
has remained Venetian, although she had as her half a century in Paris, and never showed the least
first master the painter, Jean Steve, and was desire to see again the sad skies of Malmoe. He
received by the Paris Academy of Painting in exhibited at all the Louvre Salons up till 1791,
1720), all the names I have mentioned belong to was received by the Academie de Peinture in
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appearance. As well, it has been aptly said, might
one varnish a peach or a young girl's cheek. Ah
the pastel needs, to preserve its first freshness, is to
be protected from sunlight, from dust, and from
damp.
The names I quoted above constitute a brief
but dazzling list 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
FROM THE PASTEL HY QUENTIN I.ATOOR
(In the Rey-Spitzer Collection)
among these honoured names those of Latour, of for his liveliest and subtlest artistic sensations,
La Rosalba, and of Perronneau stand out with a midway between a journey to the shores of the
special lustre. Bosphorus and a sojourn at the Court of Maria-
La Rosalba Camera apart (an artist who Theresa? As for Roslin, he lived for more than
has remained Venetian, although she had as her half a century in Paris, and never showed the least
first master the painter, Jean Steve, and was desire to see again the sad skies of Malmoe. He
received by the Paris Academy of Painting in exhibited at all the Louvre Salons up till 1791,
1720), all the names I have mentioned belong to was received by the Academie de Peinture in
" 3<S