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18th century colour palettes

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    Eighteenth century color palettes

Abstract

Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Félix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' palettes, from Prussian Blue to the early synthetics such as Patent Yellow. It was a century rich in pigments, the authors of the treatises listing over 150 pigments that could be bought in the shops in London and Paris.

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    Forest Row, East Sussex: Artists, Bookworks, 2018

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Is about

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  • Period

    1750-1800

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    • 9780946311019
    • 0946311013

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    From the treatises of Robert Dossie (The handmaid to the arts, 1758), Jean Félix Watin (The art of the painter, gilder and varnisher, 1773), Placide Auguste le Pileur d'Apligny (Treatise on material colours, 1776), Pierre-Bartélemy-Alexandre de Constant de Massoul (A treatise on the art of painting and the composition of colours, 1797)

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