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

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

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

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

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

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

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