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Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757), Girl with a Rabbit, ca. 1720s-1730s, pastel on paper. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Past eventSat., May 16, 2015, 12 a.m.–Mon., Sept. 7, 2015, 11:59 p.m.
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This exhibition features nine 18th-century pastels from The Huntington's holdings, which have not been on public view for nearly a decade.
This exhibition features nine 18th-century pastels from The Huntington's holdings, which have not been on public view for nearly a decade. Still-sparkling works by masters of the medium such as Rosalba Carriera, Francis Cotes, and William Hoare, brilliantly demonstrate why the late 17th-century French art theorist Roger de Piles called pastel "the most commodious type of painting."
