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Catalogue of Works

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

National Gallery of Art

50 documented works

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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.)

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Fromuth, Charles

A Dock Harmony--Fishing Boats

1897

pastel on dark brown wove paper

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

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Labille-Guiard, Adélaïde

A Fashionable Noblewoman Wearing a Plumed Hat

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.)

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Huet, Paul

A Meadow at Sunset

c. 1845

pastel on gray-blue paper

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

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Pissarro, Camille

A Peasant Girl in a Straw Hat

c. 1892

pastel over charcoal on beige laid paper

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

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Carriera, Rosalba

Allegory of Painting

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.)

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Rotari, Pietro

An Elegant Young Lady with a Lace Cap

1750/1756

pastel on beige prepared canvas (on a strainer)

sheet: 46.8 × 36.1 cm (18 7/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

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Liotard, Jean-Étienne

An Elegant Young Woman in Maltese Costume

c. 1744

pastel with touches of white gouache on parchment (stretched around wood)

overall: 82.9 x 53.8 cm (32 5/8 x 21 3/16 in.)

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Menzel, Adolph

An Infant Asleep in His Crib

1848

pastel on brown wove paper

sheet: 13.9 x 21.8 cm (5 1/2 x 8 9/16 in.)

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Hassam, Childe

Au Grand Prix de Paris (At the Grand Prix de Paris)

1887

pastel over graphite on paperboard coated with sawdust

board: 40.48 × 31.75 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

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Degas, Edgar

Ballet Dancers

c. 1877

pastel and gouache over monotype

Overall: 29.7 x 26.9 cm (11 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.) framed: 46.6 x 43.5 x 6.3 cm (18 3/8 x 17 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

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Luks, George

Breadline

1900

pastel on paperboard

board: 49.69 × 74.93 cm (19 9/16 × 29 1/2 in.)

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Lagneau

Bust of an Old Woman Wearing a Head Scarf

c. 1625

black chalk and colored chalks on laid paper

overall: 32.7 x 22.8 cm (12 7/8 x 9 in.)

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Degas, Edgar

Café-Concert

1876/1877

pastel over monotype and charcoal (in sticks of fan) on tan laid paper and board

actual: 9 1/4 x 17 in. (23.5 x 43.2 cm) framed: 16 1/8 x 24 in. (41 x 61 cm)

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Millet, Jean-François

Calling Home the Cows

c. 1866

pastel and conté crayon on wove paper

Unframed: 22 x 16 1/4 in. (55.9 x 41.3 cm)

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Gardner, Daniel

Charlotte, Lady Watkin Williams-Wynn

c. 1775

pastel with graphite and gouache on laid paper prepared with white ground

sheet: 27.9 × 22.2 cm (11 × 8 3/4 in.)

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La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de

Claude Dupouch

c. 1739

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

overall: 59.4 x 49.4 cm (23 3/8 x 19 7/16 in.)

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Millet, Jean-François

Falling Leaves

c. 1866

pastel and conté crayon on wove paper

Unframed: 14 1/2 x 17 in. (36.8 x 43.2 cm)

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Hamilton, Hugh Douglas

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)

overall: 95 x 68 cm (37 3/8 x 26 3/4 in.)

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Luti, Benedetto

Head of a Bearded Man

1715

pastel and colored chalks on laid paper; laid down

sight size: 32.2 x 26.4 cm (12 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

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Barocci, Federico

Head of a Bearded Man

1579/1582

colored chalks on blue laid paper; laid down

overall: 38 x 26.3 cm (14 15/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

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Berjon, Antoine

Hunting Trophy with Hare and Bay Leaves

c. 1810

pastel on prepared canvas

overall: 65 × 54 cm (25 9/16 × 21 1/4 in.)

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Berjon, Antoine

Hunting Trophy with Mallard, Partridge, Goldfinches, and Onions

c. 1810

pastel on prepared canvas

overall: 65 × 54 cm (25 9/16 × 21 1/4 in.)

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Sharples Family

John Bard

1796/1801

pastel on gray wove(?) paper

Overall: 24.2 x 18.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.) framed: 31.1 x 26 x 4.1 cm (12 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.)

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Copley, John Singleton

John Temple

1765

pastel on tan laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer)

overall: 59.7 x 40 cm (23 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.)

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Hamilton, Hugh Douglas

Lady Holland (Lady Mary Fitzpatrick)

c. 1770

pastel with touches of graphite on laid paper

overall (oval): 25 x 20 cm (9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

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Manet, Edouard

Madame Michel-Lévy

1882

pastel on canvas

overall: 74.2 x 51 cm (29 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.) framed: 98.4 x 74.3 cm (38 3/4 x 29 1/4 in.)

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Russell, John

Mary Wood

1794

pastel on paper laid down on canvas

overall (oval): 60.5 x 45 cm (23 13/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

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Sharples Family

Mrs. John Bard

1796/1801

pastel on gray wove(?) paper

overall (approximate): 24.2 x 19.3 cm (9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)

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Perronneau, Jean-Baptiste

Portrait of a Man

c. 1757

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

overall: 55.4 x 45.5 cm (21 13/16 x 17 15/16 in.)

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German 16th century (Augsburg)

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Hat with a Medallion

1520/1540

colored chalks on laid paper

overall: 20.4 x 20.3 cm (8 1/16 x 8 in.)

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Gauguin, Paul

Reclining Nude [recto]

1894/1895

pastel and black crayon over charcoal, corrected with white gouache, on laid paper

overall: 30.6 x 62.1 cm (12 1/16 x 24 7/16 in.)

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Redon, Odilon

Saint George and the Dragon

1880s and c. 1892

charcoal and pastel on tan wove paper

overall: 53.7 x 37.5 cm (21 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

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Pillement, Jean-Baptiste

Shepherds Resting by a Stream

1779

gouache and pastel on prepared canvas

overall: 77 x 101 cm (30 5/16 x 39 3/4 in.)

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Carriera, Rosalba

Sir John Reade, Baronet

1739

pastel on blue laid paper mounted to canvas (on strainer)

overall: 58 x 46 cm (22 13/16 x 18 1/8 in.)

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Michetti, Francesco Paolo

Southern Italian Woman Dressed for Church

1885/1888

pastel on blue laid paper, prepared with beige gouache(?)

sheet: 64.5 × 46 cm (25 3/8 × 18 1/8 in.)

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Chase, William Merritt

Study of Flesh Color and Gold

1888

pastel on paper coated with mauve-gray grit (on strainer)

overall: 45.7 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.)

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Menzel, Adolph

The Artist's Sister Emilie

1851

pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper

sheet: 31 x 24 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

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Degas, Edgar

The Ballet

c. 1880

pastel on light tan paper mounted on board

framed: 20 x 17 in. (50.8 x 43.2 cm) sheet: 12 3/4 x 10 in. (32.4 x 25.4 cm)

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Cassatt, Mary

The Black Hat

c. 1890

pastel on tan wove paper

overall: 61 x 45.5 cm (24 x 17 15/16 in.)

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Whistler, James McNeill

The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore

1880

pastel and conté crayon on brown wove paper

sheet: 20 × 29.69 cm (7 7/8 × 11 11/16 in.)

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Bassano, Jacopo

The Mocking of Christ

1568

colored chalks on blue laid paper

overall: 41.3 × 52.5 cm (16 1/4 × 20 11/16 in.)

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Whistler, James McNeill

The Palace; white and pink

1879/1880

pastel and conté crayon on brown wove paper

sheet: 19.7 × 30 cm (7 3/4 × 11 13/16 in.) framed: 42.23 × 52.39 × 5.4 cm (16 5/8 × 20 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)

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Lhermitte, Léon Augustin

The Weaver's Cottage

c. 1903

pastel, conté crayon, and charcoal on tan paper, mounted on canvas (on wooden stretcher)

sheet: 38.3 × 48.5 cm (15 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.) (approximate dimensions, measured in housing

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Greuze, Jean-Baptiste

The Well-Loved Mother

1765

pastel with colored chalks and stumping on light golden-brown laid paper

overall: 44 x 32.2 cm (17 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

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Degas, Edgar

Two Women

c. 1878/1880

pastel over watercolor and charcoal on tan laid paper, mounted to board

overall: 29.21 × 44.45 cm (11 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.) framed: 47.63 × 63.5 × 6.35 cm (18 3/4 × 25 × 2 1/2 in.)

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Weir, Julian Alden

Watching the Bees

1896

pastel and charcoal on wove paper

sheet: 40.16 × 27.78 cm (15 13/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

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Monet, Claude

Waterloo Bridge

1901

pastel on blue wove paper

overall: 31.1 x 50.2 cm (12 1/4 x 19 3/4 in.)

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Redon, Odilon

Wildflowers

c. 1905

pastel on brown wove paper coated with sawdust

overall: 64.1 x 50 cm (25 1/4 x 19 11/16 in.)

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Degas, Edgar

Young Woman Dressing Herself

1885

pastel over charcoal on tan wove(?) paper mounted on board

overall: 80.1 x 51.2 cm (31 9/16 x 20 3/16 in.) framed: 94.6 x 66 x 5.7 cm (37 1/4 x 26 x 2 1/4 in.)

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