Eleonora Bargili was an Italian

pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...

list active during the eighteenth century. A nun at the convent of Santa Maria della Neve in

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, she created an altarpiece of Francis de Sales for that institution. It is undated, but may have been done in conjunction with the establishment in 1739, of an Istituto di S. Francesco di Sales at the convent.Profile
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.

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