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aux trois crayons [Fr.: ‘with three chalks’].
Term applied to a drawing in black, red and white chalks, often carried out on tinted paper; the technique was particularly employed by Antoine Watteau, among others, in the early part of the 18th century. The variant terms aux deux crayons (black and red chalks) and aux quatre crayons (black, white and two shades of red chalk) are occasionally also used (see DRAWING, colour pl. I, fig. 2).
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