"This book partly covers the artworks featured in the exhibition [of the same name] presented at the Musée d'Orsay from 30 September 2008 to 4 January 2009"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Guy Cogeval -- Stardust / Claude Arnaud -- The return to favour / Stéphane Guégan -- Jean-Francois Millet, the mid-19th century pastel revival / Marie-Pierre Salé -- Manet and his entourage / Isabelle Cahn -- Degas reinvents pastel / Anne Roquebert -- "An irradiation of things for the dream"- the pastels of Odilon Redon / Dario Gamboni -- Symbolisms / Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond -- Notes on the works