Excerpt from The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century: Their Lives Their Times Their Art, and Their Significance Pastel came into France out of Italy, brought thereto in the satchel of the Venetian lady Rosalba Carriera, in l7zo - the scandalous i artistic Duke of Orleans being Regent over the land. And Italian its statement largely threatened to be, uttered with some lisping French accent of prettiness, until from the north came La Tour and brought Flemish frankness and sincerity to the use of it, speaking pure French through its employment, and carrying it to highest achievement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.