Pastels of the Eighteenth Century: Recent Acquisitions

August 6 – September 26, 2004
East Building, Ground Floor, Reception Room

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, *The Well-Loved Mother*, 1765, pastel with red, black, and white chalks and stumping on light golden-brown laid paper, New Century Fund, 2000.15.1

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century Recent Acquisitions

Jean-Étienne Liotard, An Elegant Young Woman in Maltese Costume, c. 1744, pastel with touches of white gouache on parchment, Patrons' Permanent Fund and New Century Fund, 2002.121.1

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century Recent Acquisitions

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Well-Loved Mother, 1765, pastel with red, black, and white chalks and stumping on light golden-brown laid paper, New Century Fund, 2000.15.1

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century Recent Acquisitions

John Singleton Copley, John Temple, 1765, pastel on paper mounted on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2003.133.1

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century Recent Acquisitions

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat, c. 1789, pastel on blue laid paper, New Century Fund, 1999.92.1

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century Recent Acquisitions

John Russell, Miss Raymond, 1783, pastel on laid paper, Ellen F. Karpf and New Century Fund, 2004.20.1

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century Recent Acquisitions

John Russell, Mary Wood, 1794, pastel on paper laid down on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1993.63.1

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century Recent Acquisitions

Claude Bornet, An Elderly Lady in a Mauve Silk Dress, 1767, pastel on laid paper, Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2001.21.1

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: 7 18th-century pastels recently acquired by the National Gallery were shown in this exhibition. Included were works by Jean-Étienne Liotard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and John Singleton Copley.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings at the National Gallery, coordinated the exhibition.

Bornet, Claude: French, 1733 - 1804

Copley, John Singleton: American, 1738 - 1815

Greuze, Jean-Baptiste: French, 1725 - 1805

Labille-Guiard, Adélaïde: French, 1749 - 1803

Liotard, Jean-Étienne: Swiss, 1702 - 1789

Russell, John: British, 1745 - 1806

Pastels of the Eighteenth Century