Portrait of a Man, 1755–65, Red and black chalk on off-white laid paper, verso worked in black chalk (in area corresponding to

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Portrait of a Man, 1755–65, Red and black chalk on off-white laid paper, verso worked in black chalk (in area corresponding to the sitter's jacket on the recto), Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. ( × cm), Drawings, Jean Étienne Liotard (Swiss, Geneva 1702–1789 Geneva), Born in Geneva and largely self-taught, Liotard spent a great part of his life travelling, capturing the likenesses of Europe’s upper classes with a steady and penetrating eye. His portraits, typically executed in chalk or pastel, exhibit a quasi-scientific clarity of observation, more suggestive of Enlightenment curiosity than of Rococo artifice

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Size: 3872px × 4963px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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