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Dictionary of pastellists before 1800
EXHIBITIONS
The files below cover the main exhibitions which included pastels, as well as bibliographic details of other exhibitions without pastels where the catalogue is referred to elsewhere in the Dictionary. Exhibitions are cited by town and date (of the first appearance, in the case of travelling exhibitions); catalogue authors' or editors' names are cited where known, but not names of multiple authors. The order is by date; then alphabetically by town within each year. "Paris" is omitted from the references to the Paris exhibitions of the Académie royale (Salon du Louvre, or just Salon), the Académie de Saint-Luc (Salon de Saint-Luc), those held at the place Dauphine (Salon de la Jeunesse) and those organised by Pahin de la Blancherie (Salon de la Correspondance); "London" is omitted from exhibitions of the Royal Academy, the Free Society and the Society of Artists. The exhibitions before 1800 are accompanied by extracts from contemporary criticism which refer to pastels. Transcriptions are from the livrets of 18th century exhibitions (preserving the original spelling), and include items which are or appear to be pastels (the medium is not always specified, so a number of oil paintings may well have been included, and some pastels omitted). Where no livret was printed, or none has been found, a short list in the manner of a livret has been constructed from contemporary critiques. Apart from silent rearrangement of the sequence of some entries, editorial interventions are in square brackets, including cross-references to revised attributions or identifications where these are necessary to locate the works in the Dictionary, as well as annotations from commentators such as Mariette or Walpole. An asterisk against items in the Royal Academy catalogues indicates that they were for sale. In view of the bibliographic issues surrounding such sources, references are included both to the Collection Deloynes ("CD") and McWilliam, Schuster & Wrigley 1991 ("MSW").
In addition to the above files, illustrated livrets of certain exhibitions are being added to the site. Currently available are:
Exposition de Cent pastels (Paris 1908a)
Exposition de pastels français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Paris 1927a)