View Portrait of a Child Pastel on blue paper mounted on stretcher 54 x 43.5 cm Label on back with old attribution to Adelaïde Labille-Guiard Provenance: Former Moreau - Rendu collection By Marie ...

In his 38 brief but busy years, Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) became a 19th-century cultural giant. He is to Krakow what Henrik Ibsen is to Oslo or James Joyce is to Dublin. Yet largely as a result ...

Joseph Cotes, “Portrait of Joseph and his Brother John Gulston” (1754), pastel on blue paper, mounted on canvas (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — ...

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, "Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children" (1783), pastel on three sheets of blue paper, mounted on canvas, 38 ¾ x 31 1/8 inches (image courtesy the J. Paul Getty ...

Usually when drawing a portrait, artists like Alyssa Wentzel can ask their models to move this way or that and capture the shifts in mood in real time. One of Wentzel’s recent portraits, however, was ...

“I draw their eyes first,” said Mary Burkett, “and I reach a moment where I just make some little subtle shading, and all of a sudden, I see the little person, and I just sort of say, ‘Hey, darling.’ ...