The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art
Jacopo Bassano, The Mocking of Christ, 1568, colored chalks on blue laid paper, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1980.30.1
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Rosalba Carriera, Allegory of Painting, 1730s, pastel and red chalk on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer), Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.136
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Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Claude Dupouch, c. 1739, pastel on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on stretcher/strainer), Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.76
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Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Portrait of a Man, c. 1757, pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on canvas (on strainer/stretcher), Woodner Collection, 1991.182.7
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Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Frederick North, Later Fifth Earl of Guilford, in Rome, 1790, pastel and gouache(?) with touches of graphite on paper mounted to canvas (on strainer/stretcher), Gift of the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, 1991.86.1
Paul Huet, A Meadow at Sunset, c. 1845, pastel on gray-blue paper, Purchased as a Gift in Memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2013.196.3
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Jean-François Millet, Calling Home the Cows, c. 1866, pastel and conté crayon on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.178
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Edgar Degas, Young Woman Dressing Herself, 1885, pastel over charcoal on tan wove(?) paper mounted on board, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman, 1972.9.9
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Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, 1901, pastel on blue wove paper, Florian Carr Fund, 2013.102.2
William Merritt Chase, Study of Flesh Color and Gold, 1888, pastel on paper coated with mauve-gray grit (on strainer), Gift of Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz, 2007.94.2
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Camille Pissarro, A Peasant Girl in a Straw Hat, c. 1892, pastel over charcoal on beige laid paper, Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef and Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke, 1998.144.1
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Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait as a Young Woman, c. 1900, pastel on laid paper, Gift of Robert and Chris Petteys, 1995.56.1
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George Luks, Breadline, 1900, pastel on paperboard, Corcoran Collection (Estate of Susie Brummer), 2015.19.2950
Roy Lichtenstein, Untitled (Six Figures), 1948, pastel on unprimed muslin on paperboard, Gift of Renée Tolcott in honor of her brother, Roy Lichtenstein, 2011.133.1
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Jasper Johns, Untitled (from Untitled 1972), 1975/1976, pastel and graphite on gray Japanese paper, Gift of Jasper Johns, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.107.1
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G. Daniel Massad, Breach, 2009, pastel on gray wove paper, Gift of the Artist in memory of his parents, 2018.17.1