Jean Etienne Liotard. Portrait of a Man Holding a Book, Turned to the Right. 1758–1762. Switzerland. Black and white chalk, with traces of red chalk, on blue laid paper, rubbed on the verso with vermillion and traced with a stylus Liotard was internationally famous in the mid-18th century for his incisive and resplendent pastel portraits,such as the Art Institute’s Portrait of Marthe-Marie Tronchin (1758/62; gallery 216a). This rare preliminary study of an unknown gentleman reveals some of the artist’s working method he rubbed the back of the sheet of blue paper with a lush vermilion pastel, t
Jean Etienne Liotard. Portrait of a Man Holding a Book, Turned to the Right. 1758–1762. Switzerland. Black and white chalk, with traces of red chalk, on blue laid paper, rubbed on the verso with vermillion and traced with a stylus Liotard was internationally famous in the mid-18th century for his incisive and resplendent pastel portraits,such as the Art Institute’s Portrait of Marthe-Marie Tronchin (1758/62; gallery 216a). This rare preliminary study of an unknown gentleman reveals some of the artist’s working method he rubbed the back of the sheet of blue paper with a lush vermilion pastel, to trace and thus transfer the outlines of the figure onto another support.
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