The Conservation of Rosalba Carriera’s Pastels of the Four Seasons

A seated, half-length young woman holds a basket of fruit from which a winged putto plucks a bunch of grapes. The woman has dark hair which is dressed with flowers and ribbons and is naked from the waist up; her lower half is swathed in brown drapery. Entries in Rosalba Carriera's diary indicate that she executed a number of sets of the 'Seasons' in...

A pastel on blue paper of an almost half-length figure of a young girl, facing slightly to the left, her head turned slightly to the right, her right arm extended across her half-covered chest to grasp a bunch of fruit; she wears a loose chemise and blue drapery; tree and sky in the background. This pastel was almost certainly part of Joseph Smith's...

A seated, nearly half-length young woman, with flowers in her hair, is receiving a garland of flowers from a putto. The woman has blond hair and is partially swathed in white and yellow drapery; her right breast is exposed. Rosalba Carriera made several versions of female allegorical figures representing the Four Seasons. On 25 May 1726 her diaries...

A pastel on blue paper of an almost half-length figure of a young girl, facing half to the left, her head lowered and turned half to the right; clasping a fur-trimmed wrap across her naked chest, across which her left arm is extended. At bottom edge, under the frame's fillet, strips of bright fuchsia showing the extent to which some of the pastel...