Rosalba Carriera
1673–1757 · Rococo · 2 works
Rosalba Carriera, born in Venice to a modest family and probably self-taught, became internationally celebrated for her pastel portraits, often of foreign visitors to Venice. In Paris in 1720 and 1721 she portrayed the boy king Louis XV. Her mastery helped make pastel a serious, admired art, until failing eyesight left her blind by 1749.
2 works · 1730–1740
Canaletto
Capriccio: A Street Crossed by Arches (recto) Sketches of Doorway, Staircase and Second Floor of Building (verso), c. 1720
François Boucher
Head of a Young Woman, early 1730s
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, c. 1719
