The Conté à Paris pastel pencil (5 mm) lead gives genuine freedom of creation and an unrivalled feel. The pastel is a perfect pencil companion to soft pastel because its lead is slightly harder with less pigment. It is preferable to Conté soft pastels and crayons when detail is required for small and medium-sized formats.

Size:

Length: 176.5 mm

Diameter 8.5 mm

Lead diameter 5mm

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Conté à Paris

Frenchman Nicolas Conté was a classic 18th-century Renaissance man: a chemist, inventor, soldier and balloonist, and artist. Most importantly, for our purposes, he created the pencil as we know it, responding to a wartime lack of British graphite by mixing the material with clay, thereby introducing the possibility of different degrees of hardness. He then invented the Conté Carré Crayon, a firm pastel used by Degas and Picasso, among others. The company is still famed for these and its other ranges of pastels, crayons and pencils.