From the Book - First edition.
Origins of the golden age: the invention of an art, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
A fashion for independent chalk drawing in Italy and France
The early market for painting in pastel and its place in the Académie Royale
Rosalba Carriera and 'The game of appearances'
Maurice Quentin de la Tour and the triumph of pastel painting
The golden age of pastel painting: France at midcentury
The Turkish painter: Jean-Etienne Liotard of Geneva
Women pastel painters of late eighteenth-century France
British pastel artists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
John Russell, 'Prince of pastelists'
Pastel in the British periphery: Ireland, Scotland, and America
An audacious era: the nineteenth century
Outside the walls: pastel landscapes
The revelation of Jean-François Millet
Manet and the Parisian women of his time
Degas and Cassatt: advocates of truth
The last word in elegance
Odilon Redon and the reinvention of pastel.
