François Tronchin
at Cleveland Museum of Art
Jean-Étienne Liotard
Genevan1702–1789
About
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.
Notable works
Madame de Vermenoux huldigt Apollo
at Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Carl Fredrik von Höpken, envoy, President of the Treasury Board for the Rating of Government Property
at Nationalmuseum
Portrait de l'impératrice Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche
at Museum of Art and History Geneva
Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria, later Queen of Naples and Sicily
at Museum of Art and History Geneva
Portrait of Johanne Salome von der Asseburg
at Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
Portrait of Madame Anne Tronchin
at Louvre Museum
Laura Tarsi, 'A Grecian Lady'
at Fitzwilliam Museum
Empress Maria Theresia
at Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Dame pensive sur un sofa
at Museum of Art and History Geneva
Works in the collection
34 works
François Tronchin
at Cleveland Museum of Art
Madame de Vermenoux huldigt Apollo
at Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Carl Fredrik von Höpken, envoy, President of the Treasury Board for the Rating of Government Property
at Nationalmuseum
Portrait de l'impératrice Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche
at Museum of Art and History Geneva
Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria, later Queen of Naples and Sicily
at Museum of Art and History Geneva
Portrait of Johanne Salome von der Asseburg
at Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
Portrait of Madame Anne Tronchin
at Louvre Museum
Laura Tarsi, 'A Grecian Lady'
at Fitzwilliam Museum
Empress Maria Theresia
at Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Dame pensive sur un sofa
at Museum of Art and History Geneva
More by Jean-Étienne Liotard in institutions
Museum of Art and History Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
Brunswick, Germany
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, United Kingdom
National Gallery of Victoria
City of Melbourne, Australia
Pera Museum
Beyoğlu, Turkey
Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Antwerp, Belgium
Louvre Museum
Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, France
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, United States
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Statens Museum for Kunst
Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark
The Frick Collection
Manhattan, United States
Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden
