Portrait of Jean-Etienne Liotard, seated, three-quarter length: a copy after Liotard

Details

Madame Vignier, née Marie-Anne Bassompierre (active France, 19th Century)
Portrait of Jean-Etienne Liotard, seated, three-quarter length: a copy after Liotard
pastel on paper
38¾ x 28½ in. (98.3 x 72 cm.)

Provenance

Mme Tilanus-Liotard, and by descent.
Tilanus collection; their sale, Amsterdam, 1934, lot 1034.
Alfred Hausammann, Zurich, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 337.
M. Roethlisberger and R. Loche, Liotard: Catalogue, sources et correspondance, Doornspijk, 2008, I, pp. 405-406, under no. 196, II, fig. 326.

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Lot Essay

A copy of Liotard's famous Self Portrait (circa 1749) in the Musée d'Art et Histoire, Geneva. The artist, Madame Vignier, was Liotard's granddaughter, the daughter of Marie-Jeanne Liotard who married Jean-François Bassompierre in 1782. An attribution to Madame Vignier was suggested by Marcel Roethlisberger in a letter to the present owners dated 8 December 2001.

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