West European Pastels of the 16th - 19th Centuries in the Hermitage

On 27 February, 2003, in the New Hermitage Hall of Twelve Columns (Room No. 244) opened an exhibition of 54 French, German, Swedish and Italian pastels. The show is organized by the State Hermitage Museum together with Europastel Committee.

The Hermitage collection of West European pastels gives a fairly complete picture of various trends and genres since the 16th century to the present time.

The 16th century section opening the exhibition includes works by Federico Barocci, Daniel Dumoustier and Claude Mellane. The golden age of pastel is represented by cartoons by Rosalba Carriera, Francois Boucher, Gustav Lundberg and John Russel, along with works by Pierre Jacques Volert, Theobald Michault, Anton Raphael Mengs, Balthasar Denner, Anna Dorothea Therbusch- Lisiewska, Vogel von Vogelstein and Joseph Petitot dating from the 18th century. The late 18th - first half of the 19th centuries are represented by pastels by Johann Bardoux, Karl Wilhelm Bardoux, Johann Heinrich Schmidt and Alessandro Molinari. Works by Franz von Lenbach, Hippolyte Robillard, Odilon Redon and Edgar Degas close the show.

Europastel Committee published the exhibition’s catalogue. Curator is A.S. Kantor-Gukovskaya of the Hermitage Department of West European Art.

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State Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky opening the exhibition

At the exhibition