Venetian Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757), the golden age of pastel

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Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757) in the Hermitage collection (14 works)
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Golden Age of pastels, during its heyday associated with the name Rosalba Carrière (1675 - 1757). Portraits, women's and children's heads, made by an artist, deprived of heroic pathos, edification, rhetoric. Its influence experienced many painters, including the Swede Gustaf Lundberg (1695-1786), the largest English pastel and pastel theorist John Russell (1745-1806). Carriere had an impact in the technical sense, and the evolution of female portraits in a style which was to some extent, accepted and developed by many masters of the mid XVIII century, in particular, and such a consummate artist, as Francois Boucher .......
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1.Apollon
Doubles to the picture "Diana"
Paper blue, pastel. 67h52 cm
Italy. Between 1740 - 1746 gg.
Source of Entry to the Museum: A collection of Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall. 1779
2.Vesna
Series "The Four Seasons: The weights, Summer, Autumn, Winter"
Gray paper glued on canvas, pastel. 24h19 cm
Italy. Mid-1720's.
Source of Entry to the museum: Crozat collection in Paris. 1772
3.Golovka blonde
Doubles to the drawing "Head of a young dark-haired woman"
Paper blue, pastel. 31h25 cm
Italy. 1730-e gg. (?)
Source of Entry to the museum: Crozat collection in Paris. 1772
4.Golovka young dark-haired woman
Doubles to the drawing "Head of blondes"
Paper blue, pastel. 31h25 cm
Italy. 1730-e gg. (?)
Source of Entry to the museum: Crozat collection in Paris. 1772
5.Detskaya head in profile
Light gray paper glued on wood, pastels. 33h27 cm
Italy. Around 1720
Source of Entry to the Museum: A collection of Baron, LA Crozat de Thiers in Paris. 1772
6.Detskaya head-face
Light gray paper glued on wood, pastels. 33h27 cm
Italy. Around 1720
Source of Entry to the Museum: A collection of Baron, LA Crozat de Thiers in Paris. 1772
7.Diana
Doubles to the drawing Apollo
Paper blue, pastel. 67h52 cm
Italy. Between 1740 - 1746 gg.
Source of Entry to the Museum: A collection of Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall. 1779
8.Zhenskaya head with a ribbon and laurel leaves in her hair
Paper blue, pastel. 42.3h32.4 cm
Italy. Between 1701 - 1757 gg.
Received 1797g.
9.Zima
Series "The Four Seasons: The weights, Summer, Autumn, Winter"
Gray paper glued on canvas, pastel. 24h19 cm
Italy. Mid-1720's.
Source of Entry to the museum: Crozat collection in Paris. 1772
10.Leto
Series "The Four Seasons: The weights, Summer, Autumn, Winter"
Gray paper glued on canvas, pastel. 24h19 cm
Italy. Mid-1720's.
Source of Entry to the museum: Crozat collection in Paris. 1772