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Liotard: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe

Liotard: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe

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ISBN10: 1911397591
ISBN13: 9781911397595
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Published: Feb 29 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.77 Depth: 9.53
Language: English

Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting cross-section of society. Liotard worked in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Constantinople and Vienna and excelled as a specialist in the delicate art of pastel. He became renowned for the uncanny realism of his portraits as well as the beauty of his drawings, while also experimenting with watercolour, oil painting, printmaking and enamels. In Britain he enjoyed notoriety because of his exotic persona, and received commissions from royalty, aristocrats, grand tourists and celebrities.

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