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Jean-Etienne Liotard The Chocolate Pot c1745
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Marie-Adelaide of France in Turkish Dress 1753
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Turkish Woman with a Tambourine (mk08) c.1738-1743
Oil on canvas,
63.5x48.5cm
Geneva,Museee d'Art etd'Histoire
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Portrait of Franqois Tronchin (mk08) 1757
Pastel on parchment
37.5x46cm
Geneva,Andre Giaudon collection
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Dame franque vetue a la turque et sa servante (mk32) pastel sur parchemin 71 x 53 cm 1742-1743 Musee d'Art et d'Histoire,Geneve
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Jean-Etienne Liotard View of Geneva from the Artist s House mk52
1740
Oil on canvas
24x20cm
Rijksmuseum,Amsterdam
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Self-Portrait mk52
1744-5
Pastel on paper
60.5x46.5cm
Gemaldegalerie,Dresden
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Morie-Adelaide of France Dressed in Turkish Costume mk65
Oil on canvas
19 11/16x22 1/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Self-Portrait mk67
Pastel on panel
24x19 5/16in
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Turkish Woman with a Tambourine mk86
c.1738-1743
Oil on canvas
63.5x48.5cm
Geneva,Musee d'Art et d'Histoire
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Portrait of Francois Tronchin mk86
1757
Pastel on parchment
37.5x46cm
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Portrait of M.Levett and of Mlle Glavany Seated on a Sofa mk155
Oil on card
24.7x36.4cm
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Girl in Turkish Costume with Tambourine mk1558
between 1738 and 1743
Oil on canvas
63.5x48.5cm
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Portrait of Mary Gunning Countess of Coventry mk155
1749
Pastel on parchment
23.5x19cm
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Jean-Etienne Liotard The Chocolate-Girl mk156
1744-45
Pastel on paper
85.2x52.5cm
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Marie Adelade of France mk164
1753
Uffize
Florence
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Portrait of a Grand Vizir mk170
1738-1743
Pastel on paper
61.6x47.6cm
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Jean-Etienne Liotard The chocolates maggot mk186
1744 Dresden, Gemaldegalerie old masters
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Tea service mk186
1783 Los Angeles
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Jean-Etienne Liotard Marie Adalaide 1753
Oil on canvas,
57 x 48 cm
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Jean-Etienne Liotard
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1702-1789
Swiss
Jean Etienne Liotard Gallery
He began his studies under Professor Gardelle and Petitot, whose enamels and miniatures he copied with considerable skill. He went to Paris in 1725, studying under J. B. Masse and François Lemoyne, on whose recommendation he was taken to Naples by the Marquis Puysieux. In 1735 he was in Rome, painting the portraits of Pope Clement XII and several cardinals. Three years later he accompanied Lord Duncannon to Constantinople. His eccentric adoption of oriental costume secured him the nickname of the Turkish painter. He went to Vienna in 1742 to paint the portraits of the imperial family. Still under distinguished patronage he returned to Paris. In 1744 he visited England, where he painted the princess of Wales in 1753, and went to Holland in 1756, where, in the following year, he married Marie Fargues. She also came from a Hugenot family, and wanted him to shave off his beard. Another visit to England followed in 1772, and in the next two years his name figures among the Royal Academy exhibitors. He returned to his native town in 1776. In 1781 Liotard published his Trait?? des principes et des r??gles de la peinture. In his last days he painted still lifes and landscapes. He died at Geneva in 1789.
Liotard was an artist of great versatility, and though his fame depends largely on his graceful and delicate pastel drawings, of which La Liseuse, The Chocolate Girl, and La Belle Lyonnaise at the Dresden Gallery are delightful examples, he achieved distinction by his enamels, copperplate engravings and glass painting. He also wrote a Treatise on the Art of Painting, and was an expert collector of paintings by the old masters. Many of the masterpieces he had acquired were sold by him at high prices on his second visit to England. The museums of Amsterdam, Berne, and Geneva are particularly rich in examples of his paintings and pastel drawings. A picture of a Turk seated is at the Victoria and Albert Museum, while the British Museum owns two of his drawings. The Louvre has, besides twenty-two drawings, a portrait of Lieutenant General Hrault and a portrait of the artist is to be found at the Sala di pittori, in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. While his son also married a Dutch girl, the Rijksmuseum inherited an important collection of his drawings and paintings.
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