Pastel exhibition at the Met
April 21 2011
Picture: Metropolitan Museum. Viscount Boyle by Rosalba
Here's a rarity - an exhibition of 18th Century pastels at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. The Met says:
Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe—on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning May 17, 2011—will feature about 40 pastels from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and other museums, and from private collections in Boston and New York. At the core of the exhibition will be a group of French works, and the Italian, Swiss, German, and English schools will also represented.
Closes August 14th.
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