Portrait of John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute

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Portrait of John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute

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Jean-Étienne Liotard

Swiss Artist · 1702–1789

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Jean-Étienne Liotard first trained as a miniature painter in Geneva, where he mastered the extraordinary fineness of application that was to be the hallmark of his pastel style. While in his twenties he sought his fortune in Paris, where he studied in a prominent painter's studio. After rejection by the Académie Royale, he traveled to Italy, where he obtained numerous portrait commissions. Liotard

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Lord Bute, who commissioned this portrait as a memento of his son's Grand Tour, was so pleased with it that he paid the artist twice the agreed-upon price. Exuding the self-possessed confidence of a young aristocrat, nineteen-year-old Lord Mountstuart leans against a mantel displaying the utmost in sumptuous French attire: a fur-lined winter suit of turquoise silk, lace collar and cuffs, white silk stockings, and diamond-buckle shoes. Jean-Étienne Liotard depicted the charismatic English nobleman in an elegant setting--a re-creation of a salon in Geneva appointed with Rococo furnishings such as firedogs ornamented with cherubs and a Chinese folding screen used to stop cold drafts. Above the mantel, Liotard depicted Mountstuart's handsome profile and dignified posture in a gilded mirror. Lord Mountstuart, and to a lesser extent his reflection, are sharply depicted and project forward from the surrounding objects, which are blurred to create this optical illusion. This portrait is one of the largest pastels Liotard ever painted and the only one to show a full-length subject in a meticulously described interior. His skillful effects of scale, format, and illusion challenged the conventional medium of oil painting, and Liotard himself considered the work a masterpiece.

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Jean-Étienne Liotard
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108GFH
Date
1763
Medium
Pastel, on vellum
Culture
Swiss
Object Type
Drawing

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Drawing
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Jean-Étienne Liotard
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Culture
Swiss
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Pastel, on vellum
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Drawings
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1763
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1763
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1763
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