The invention of pastel painting / Thea Burns.

London : Archetype, 2007.

xx, 236 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Chalk and pastel -- Painting with pastel -- Robert Nanteuil and the prestige of painting in pastel -- "New heights': Joseph Vivien's large-scale pastel portrait paintings -- Making up the face: technique and meaning in Carriera's pastel portraits -- Carriera's materials and working practice -- Presenting pastel portraits -- Fixatives and 'the previous powder ... which falls off as easily as scales from a butterfly's wings' -- Pastel in the nineteenth century.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-228) and index.