#liotard

[papillon-de-mai]

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

[artschoolglasses]

Breakfast, Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1752

[dreamconsumer]

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. By Liotard.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Liotard steamer boat in French Congo

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1911

[detournementsmineurs]

"Portrait of Lady Charles Spencer" by Jean Etienne Liotard, 1754.

[onlandandonsea]

Jean-Étienne Liotard

Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone, 1755-56

Portrait of Madame François Tronchin, 1758

Portrait de Marie-Thérèse-Victoire de France, after 1749

[amoebaforce]

Monsieur et madame de Thelluson (1760), Jean-Etienne Liotard

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

L'une chante, l'autre pas (Agnès Varda, 1977)

[random-brushstrokes]

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

[from-a-spiders-web]

Portrait of a Young Woman, late 18th century Jean-Étienne Liotard

[ekat-arts]

Oh! This is one of my all time favorite portraits- Le petit déjeuner de la famille Lavergne, by Jean-Etienne Liotard. The sitters were not royal, as you noted, but were members of the Lavergne family and the artist’s relatives.

The curling implements in the girl’s hair are papillote curlers, I believe. The hair has been twisted and wrapped in paper to protect it before heat would be applied with tongs. The kind of ashy cast to her hair is likely due to the fact that styling product (a fat/oil based pomade and starch based powder) had already been applied.

Liotard is one of my favorite artists, and I think he excelled at scenes like this- so intimate that the viewer almost feels like an intruder. My favorite of his paintings is probably this one:

Marianne Liotard, his daughter, and her doll.

not a rococo specialist by a few centuries but this breakfast scene is so sweet and intimate. The artists niece having a coffee with her little niece. I love when kids sit for "genre" portraits (ik they're aristocrats but u know).

Interesting material analysis from the source on oil pastel rendering vs oil painting wrt how rare and soft oil pastels are vs the harder craquelure of the oil.

Jean-Etienne Liotard, The Lavergne Family Breakfast (1754), pastel on paper + the same (1773), oil on canvas

[papillon-de-mai]

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

[thepaintedroom]

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

Detail

[dreamconsumer]

Apollo and Daphne. By Liotard.

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

Portraits of the children of Maria Theresa painted by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1762. Eleven of her twelve surviving children at the time were painted. The exception was the future Joseph II.

[detournementsmineurs]

"Marie-Rose de Larlan de Kercadio de Rochefort" par Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1750.