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pastel

painting or drawing material to color a painting surface
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pastel
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Summary

pastel ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,681 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Made from material: pigment[2], binder[3]
  • Subclass of: chalk stick[4], drawing material[5]
  • Has use: pastel painting[6]
  • Commons category: Pastel colors (medium)[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pastel colors (medium)[8]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10]
  • Different from: cake[11], pastel painting[12]

Why It Matters

pastel has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] pastel is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Maurice Quentin de La Tour

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0388192-pastel
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0388192-pastel, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → chalk stick, drawing material
    Yso id → 18268
    Made from material → pigment, binder
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2323153
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 18268, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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