Jean-Étienne Liotard
Genevan painter (1702-1789) · Switzerland · Artists · Died at 86
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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
Still life of fruit on a napkin, with a bun and a knife, 1782, pastel
Portrait of Mrs. Denis-Joseph La Live d'Epinay, c. 1759
Trompe l'Oeil, 1771, oil on silk transferred to canvas
View of the Mont Blanc with a self-portrait, 1750, RijksmuseumFamily
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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 working in cities such as Rome, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, London, Amsterdam and other cities. He is best known for his detailed, strikingly naturalistic portraits in pastel and Orientalist scenes of life in Turkey. As an art theorist he wrote the Traité des Principes et règles de la Peinture in which he argued that painting should to be a mirror of nature.
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