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Look at the parrot tugging at the sheer edge of her bodice with its beak, then at how soft pastel renders the pearls, the lace and the blue gown.
Rosalba Carriera, known simply as Rosalba, won fame for pastel portraits in Italy and France. This sheet mixes a portrait with the idealized types she also drew: the sitter may be a young Englishwoman, perhaps a daughter of Lord Manchester. Its grace and flirtation would mark much of 18th-century art, and the Art Institute counts Rosalba among the originators of the Rococo in Italy and France.
Pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on laminated paper board · 60 × 50 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Rococo
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- Museum title
- A Young Lady with a Parrot
- Artist
- Rosalba Carriera Italian, 1673-1757
- Date
- c. 1730
- Medium
- Pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on laminated paper board
- Dimensions
- 60 × 50 cm (23 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.