Conté

Conte conte conté English 2018 December 6 Etymology vertical Conté crayons.JPG An assortment of Contés Seurat L'Echo.jpg Georges Seurat, L’Écho (between 1883 and 1884), a Conté study for the painting Une Baignade, Asnières (Bathers at Asnières, 1884) From the surname of its inventor, French painter and army officer Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755–1805), who created it in 1795. Pronunciation en /ˈkɒnteɪ/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Conté.wav Southern England en /ˈkɑnteɪ/ GA en Con té Noun ~ en art A drawing medium, usually square in cross-section, composed of compressed powdered charcoal or graphite mixed with a clay or wax base. from mid 19th c. en Conté crayon en H[enry] O’Neill Materials A Guide to Pictorial Art: How to Use the Black Lead Pencil, Chalks, and Water Colours;the Capabilities of These Materials, with Every Information Necessary to Put the Student on the Proper Course for Attaining Excellence in the Fine Arts. 4th London George Rowney, & Co.,51, Rathbone Place 1849 part I, 2nd division (Light and Shade) 10 https://books.google.com/books?id=wuE2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA10 1008131515 Conté is an artificial chalk, of which there are various kinds. The square Conté, Number 1, is hard; Number 2, is soft; Number 3, is very soft. Dutch Chalk is a new kind, in some respects equal to the best Contés, and sold at a moderate price. en Carol Clark Catalogue Robert P. O’Neill American Drawings and Watercolors The Robert Lehman Collection VIII New York, N.Y. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press 1992 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=eywSRM7Kpw8C&pg=PA51 978-0-87099-639-9 A woman and a girl seated on chairs in a park. Conté crayon. en Al[bert F.] Gury Essential Drawing Materials Foundations of Drawing: A Practical Guide to Art History, Tools, Techniques, and Styles New York, N.Y. Watson-Guptill Publications 2017 48 https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj4YDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 978-0-307-98718-1 Conté sticks and pencils are made of dry pigments mixed with wax or clay and compressed into square sticks or thin rods that can be held in a metal or wooden holder or sheath. Conté typically comes in varieties of whites, grays, browns, and blacks and in a range of densities from soft to hard; the harder forms have more binder or wax and the softer less. Alternative forms en Conte en conté Hypernyms en crayon Translations drawing medium Azerbaijani: az Konte karandaşı Dutch: nl Conté French: fr crayon mine m German: de Conté n Indonesian: id konte Irish: ga crián cointé Japanese: ja コンテ konte Javanese: jv Conté, jv Konté Korean: ko 콩테 Polish: pl Conté n Russian: ru карандаш Конте m Spanish: es lápiz conté m Further reading Anagrams en cenot oncet Ecton Noteć et con. netco cteno- etcon c-note c note cento et con tecno- en eponyms French Etymology Variant of fr Comte Proper noun fr