Title: Magdaleine Pinceloup

Artist: Baptiste Perronneau

Title: Portrait of Magdaleine Pinceloup de la Grange Date: 1747 Artist: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (French, 1715–1783) Medium: Oil on canvas Description: This painting, like its pair at far left, demonstrates how Perronneau handled oil paint like pastel. Because too much surface blending can easily destroy the soft texture of the paper and the powdery quality of pastel, eighteenth-century artists tended to apply colors with smaller, individual strokes, blending color sparingly. Here Perronneau applied the same technique to liquid oil paint. Separate brushstrokes of solid color represent each fold in the sitter’s garment, and for details such as the blue trim, Perronneau applied paint over a layer below that had not yet completely dried.