A Young Lady with a Parrot
c. 1730
Medium
Pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on laminated paper board
Dimensions
60 × 50 cm (23 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
pastel
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
103887
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Rosalba Carriera is renowned for the distinction she brought to pastel portraiture in Italy and France during the first half of the eighteenth century. No female artist enjoyed greater success or exerted more influence on the art of her era than Rosalba, as she is known. The artist’s work in pastel divides itself into two categories: portraits and allegories. A shrewd judge of character, she enhanced but never obscured the actual appearance of the sitters in her portraits. In contrast, her alleg...