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. (24.1 × 18.7 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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Portrait, Man, 1755–65, Red, black chalk, off-white laid paper, verso worked, area corresponding, sitter, jacket, recto, Sheet, 9 1/2, 7 3/8, 24.1, 18.7 cm, Drawings, Jean Étienne Liotard, Swiss, Geneva, 1702–1789, Born, largely self-taught, Liotard spent, great part, life travelling, capturing, likenesses, Europe, upper classes, steady, penetrating eye, portraits, typically executed, chalk, pastel, exhibit, quasi-scientific clarity, observation, suggestive, Enlightenment curiosity, Rococo artifice
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