Jean-Étienne Liotard

Jardinière de pommes

Auction Closed

January 25, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Art of Pastel: A Swiss Private Collection

Jean-Étienne Liotard

Geneva 1702 - 1789

Jardinière de pommes

Pastel on paper

360 by 455 mm; 14 ⅛ by 17 ⅞ in.

Sale, Versailles, Palais des Congrès, 20 February 1983, lot 2 (as French School, 19th Century);
Monaco, Galerie Park Palace 4 May 1988,
where acquired by Jacques-Louis Isoz

M. Roethlisberger, 'Jean-Etienne Liotard as a Painter of Still Lifes', in The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 13, 1985, p. 117, reproduced fig. 12;
P. Skira, La Nature Morte, Geneva 1989, p. 123, reproduced
J.M. Marquis, 'Fréquence Pastel. Une Collection de Pastels du XVIII^e siècle', in Connaissance des Arts, Supplément Suisse, March 1990, p. XV, reproduced;
M. Roethlisberger and R. Loche, Liotard, Catalogue Sources et Correspondance, Doornspijk 2008, vol. I, no. 569, reproduced vol. II, fig. 772;
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, no. J.49.2641, reproduced

London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Jean Etienne Liotard 1702-1789, 2015-2016, no. 82, reproduced p. 213;

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Pastels du 16^e au 21^e siècle, 2018, cat. no. 23, reproduced p. 45;

Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Die Meister Sammlerin, Karoline Luise von Baden, 2015, cat. no. 54;

Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, The most beautiful pastel ever seen. The Chocolate Girl by Jean-Etienne Liotard, 2018 - 2019, cat no. 73