The Small Self-Portrait
<p>Liotard was a pastellist, painter, printmaker and writer who travelled across Europe over the course of his career, and exhibited a taste for the exotic in his dress and his subjects. Portraits were his specialty, and he was known for the sober, simple, close likenesses he achieved. This shows the artist in a frank self-appraisal, revealing perhaps a sense of humor regarding his own station.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1778
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.6 × 16 cm (7 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.); Plate: 21.4 × 17.8 cm (8 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 23 × 19.3 cm (9 1/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jean-Étienne Liotard
Artist
Painting
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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1763 · Etching and engraving in black on buff laid paper (discolored to tan), tipped onto ivory wove paper
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1760 · Pastel on parchment
Portrait of a Man Holding a Book, Turned to the Right
1758 · Black and white chalk, with traces of red chalk, on blue laid paper, rubbed on the verso with vermillion and traced with a stylus
Portrait of Marthe Marie Tronchin
1758 · Pastel on vellum
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- Jean-Étienne Liotard
- Year
- 1778
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.6 × 16 cm (7 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.); Plate: 21.4 × 17.8 cm (8 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 23 × 19.3 cm (9 1/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1778-113006
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified