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About Jean-Étienne Liotard
Jean-Étienne Liotard was a Genevan painter, pastellist, printmaker, art theorist and art dealer. Born in the Republic of Geneva as the son of exiled French Huguenots, he spent most of his career working in cities such as Rome, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, London, Amsterdam and other cities. He is best known for his detailed, strikingly naturalistic portraits in pastel and Orientalist scenes of life in Turkey. As an art theorist he wrote the Traité des Principes et règles de la Peinture in which he argued that painting should to be a mirror of nature.
Everything about Jean-Étienne Liotard →- Occupation
- painter, draftsperson, printmaker
- Citizenship
- Republic of Geneva
- Born
- December 22, 1702
- Died
- June 12, 1789