Jean-Étienne Liotard
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Jean-Étienne Liotard was a Genevan painter, pastellist, printmaker, art theorist and art dealer. Born in the Republic of Geneva as the son of exiled French Huguenots, he spent most of his career worki
Self-portrait (1746) in pastel, his favourite medium. The full beard he wore after visiting Turkey was an eccentricity in 18th century Europe.
Breakfast of the Lavergne family, 1752, pastel on vellum, National Gallery of Art, London
Portrait of Liotard's wife Marie Fargues in Turkish costume, c. 1757
A Turkish Lady and her Servant, 1750, oil on canvas
The Chocolate Girl
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The Chocolate Girl or The Chocolate Girl of Vienna is one of the best known pastels of the Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard, which is in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden
Jean-Étienne Liotard
…the era. Best known for his graceful and delicate pastel drawings, of which The Artist’s Niece, Marianne Lavergne, Known as ‘La Liseuse’ (Rijksmuseum), The Chocolate Girl, and the Beauty from Lyon (latter two at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden) and Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven (the J. Paul Getty…
Jean Etienne Liotard The Chocolate Girl Google Art Project
Comparable pair of cups by Doccia porcelain, Florence (after 1735) and silver-gilt stands by Paul de Lamerie (1713-14), London
Droste's cocoa tin