Rosalba Carriera (Venezia 1675 - 1757) attribuito

Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1675 - 1757) attributed Portrait of a young girl Pastel on canvas paper 36 x 30.5 cm The work reproduces, with admirable technical and expressive refinement, the well-known Portrait of a Young Girl preserved in the Louvre in Paris. Rosalba Carriera is among the greatest artists of 18th-century Europe. She is considered the greatest female artist of all time. Her style is the most attentive and penetrating of eighteenth-century Venetian and European society, fundamental to the development of French portraiture. With her portraits she fathomed unparalleled ideals of grace and elegance of an era: the swan song of the European nobility, which after a few decades would lose its status within the society renewed by Enlightenment ideas. Educated to cultivate the arts, as was appropriate for girls of the time, Rosalba and her two sisters studied music, literature, painting, embroidery, and foreign languages. Soon Rosalba devoted herself to the study of painting, especially in miniatures and portraits, deepening and rediscovering the pastel technique, which was forgotten at the time. Having become famous for the delicacy of her miniatures, she began to portray the most imminent personalities of the time using the pastel technique, in which she excelled in Europe. Thanks to the delicate shading and pure color marks that this technique allows, patrons found in her works both extreme delicacy in the velvety complexions and realistic precision in the details. Her success combined with her knowledge of several languages opened the way for her to many courts in Europe, where she increased her fame by painting miniatures and portraits for royal families and court nobility. She died in Venice in her early eighties, on April 15, 1757, after a painful decade of blindness. We recall his habit of making a copy, or copies, of all paintings executed since 1720. Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1675 - 1757) attributed. Portrait of a Girl Pastel on canvas paper 36 x 30.5 cm The artwork reproduces, with admirable technical and expressive refinement, the well-known Portrait of a Young Girl in the Louvre, Paris.