#jean Etienne liotard

[papillon-de-mai]

Jean-Étienne Liotard — Mademoiselle Louise Jacquet (detail). 1748-1752

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Jean-Etienne Liotard - Madame Louise d'Epinay (ca. 1759)

[thepaintedroom]

Jean-Etienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702-1789) • Dutch Girl at Breakfast • c. 1756

Detail

[rococo-art-history]

Empress Maria-Theresa of Austria (1745) by Jean-Étienne Liotard

[royalty-nobility]

Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751)

Artist: Jean-Étienne Liotard (Genevan, 1702-1789)

Date: 1754

Medium: Pastel on vellum

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Frederick, Prince of Wales

Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis, German: Friedrich Ludwig; 31 January 1707 – 31 March 1751) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain. He grew estranged from his parents, King George and Queen Caroline. Frederick was the father of King George III.

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A Woman in Turkish Costume in a Hamam Instructing a Servant

Artist: Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genevan, 1702-1789)

Date: 18th century

Medium: pastel on paper, laid down on canvas

Collection: Private collection

Description

The subject is a lady and her servant, standing beside the kurna, the stone wash basin that is found at the entrance to the hottest part of a Turkish bath, the calidarium, where visitors to the baths would begin the process of washing, before entering the baths themselves. They are both extremely elaborately dressed, the tips of their fingers coloured with the traditional henna that the servant carries in the pot on her tray, alongside a double-sided ivory comb, but the lady must in fact have been a European – possibly Greek, Jewish, Armenian or ‘Frankish’ (a term generally applied at the time to people originating from Northern European countries such as France, England or Holland); Liotard would not have had access to Muslim women. The lady’s heavy costume consists of no fewer than five distinct layers, and would surely have been far too hot to be worn inside the baths, though the tall wooden slippers with blue embroidered bands (takunya) are indeed what she and her servant would have worn into this part of the baths, to avoid burning their feet on the heated stones.

The costume is, however, consistent with how a Turkish woman would have been dressed in preparation for a traditional pre-marriage visit to the baths.  Only on that occasion would she go to the baths dressed in garments such as the white fur waistcoat embroidered with gold threads that we see here, with a string of gold coins around her neck (one side bearing the first line of the Koran, the other the official monogram of the Sultan), and other lavish gold and silk adornments. The virtuosic depiction of this extremely elaborate costume therefore takes on something of an ethnographic function, as a faithful record of an important aspect of Turkish culture and customs – a very different function from the more contrived portraits in exotic costume that made up so much of Liotard’s output during his time in Constantinople.  Even the colour scheme, with the intense opulence of the costumes set against a rather misty, greyish-brown background with only the faintest of shadows, somehow mimics the visual effect of seeing these sumptuously dressed figures through the steamy atmosphere of the baths, further emphasising that this is a snapshot not so much of the individual people as of the location and the specific event.

[artschoolglasses]

Breakfast, Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1752

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Jean-Étienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702–1789) • Still Life: Tea Set • c. 1781-1783 • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

(Detail)

[oldsardens]

Jean Etienne Liotard - Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven Years of Age

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Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789) "Le petit déjeuner de la famille Lavergne: ("The Lavergne family breakfast") (1754) Pastel on paper mounted on canvas Located in the National Gallery, London, England

[papillon-de-mai]

Jean-Etienne Liotard — The Lavergne Family Breakfast. 1754. detail

[dreamconsumer]

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. By Liotard.

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Marie-Rose de Larlan de Kercadio de Rochefort, Marquise des Nétumières, Jean Étienne Liotard, 1750

[rococo-art-history]

Portrait of Marthe Marie Tronchin painted by Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702 - 1789)

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Portrait of Maria Adelaide of France in Turkish-Style Clothes

Artist: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789)

Genre: Portrait Painting

Year: 1753

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Marie Adélaïde de France (23 March 1732 – 27 February 1800) was a French princess, the sixth child and fourth daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska.

As a legitimate daughter of the King, Adélaïde was a fille de France. She was referred to as Madame Quatrième ("Madame the Fourth") until the death of her older sister Marie Louise in 1733, and then as Madame Troisième ("Madame the Third"); as Madame Adélaïde from 1737 to 1755; as Madame from 1755 to 1759; and then as Madame Adélaïde again from 1759 until her death.

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Jean Etienne Liotard, Woman in Turkish Dress Seated on a Sofa, ca. 1751-1752, pastel/paper (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)