Museum Exhibition

The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

Exhibition artworks

Representative work

Gauguin, Paul

A Breton Gleaner

1886

pastel on laid paper, squared in blue pastel

overall: 46 x 37.8 cm (18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.)

Featured works

Fromuth, Charles

1897

pastel on dark brown wove paper

overall: 60.8 x 45.9 cm (23 15/16 x 18 1/16 in.)

Labille-Guiard, Adélaïde

c. 1789

pastel on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer/stretcher)

overall (oval): 55 x 46 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)

Huet, Paul

c. 1845

pastel on gray-blue paper

overall: 13.5 x 19.5 cm (5 5/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

Pissarro, Camille

c. 1892

pastel over charcoal on beige laid paper

overall: 60.4 x 34.8 cm (23 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)

Carriera, Rosalba

1730s

pastel and red chalk on blue laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer)

overall: 44.3 × 34.1 cm (17 7/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

50 documented works in this exhibition