A Roman Catholic prayer card slipped between the portrait and its frame offered proof that this was an original Carriera. Rosalba Carriera,The Portrait of a Tyrolese Lady. The rediscovered pastel, ...

Rosalba Carriera, “A Young Lady with a Parrot” (circa 1730), pastel on blue laid paper, mounted to laminated paperboard, 60 x 50 cm (Regenstein Collection ...

Ten years ago, Nicolas Party came to use what is today his signature tool: pastels. Drawn to the medium for its ability to capture soft, glowing gradients—another hallmark of the Swiss artist’s ...

Do you know the great Rococo portraitist Rosalba Carriera? She was one of the most famous painters of the early 18th century.

A portrait by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera has sold at auction for more than 20 times its estimate, fetching £508,000. The sum is a world record for a work by Carriera, who died in 1757 aged ...

A "very fragile" portrait which has not been on show for more than 35 years has been found to be by "one of the most successful female artists of any era". The Portrait of a Tyrolese Lady had been in ...

A portrait of British politician Coulson Fellowes by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) has sold at auction for £508,000, more than 20 times its estimate and a world record for an ...

The sum is a world record for a work by Carriera, who died in 1757 aged 84, according to Cheffins auctioneers in Cambridge. A portrait of British politician Coulson Fellowes by the Venetian painter ...