Follower of Antoine Pesne

All actual pastels are slightly more subdued in tone than the catalogue illustrations suggest. All pastels are in excellent condition. In all portraits there's a bit of surface dirt. The portrait by a follower of Pesne has a small scratch to the upper left. In the portrait of Flora the background is a little bit abraded. The head-and-shoulders has a few creases along the edges, and a few (water?) stains. All pastels are offered in different decorative gilt wood frames with a glass plate, with a few losses. (MW)
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Offered together with a pastel portrait by a Follower of Rosalba Carriera of a lady, half length, with a tambourine, and a pastel portrait of Mademoiselle de Chastagner de Lagrange, head and shoulders, after the original by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, in Musée la Tour, Saint-Quentin, France.