Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of a Man Holding a Book, Turned to the Right
Jean-Étienne LiotardLinkedCulture matchlcp-11b46b2679a3
- Date
- 1758/62
- Medium
- Black and white chalk, with traces of red chalk, on blue laid paper, rubbed on the verso with vermillion and traced with a stylus
- Culture
- Switzerland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 213969
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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 . 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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- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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