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Marie Fargues, the Painter’s Wife
Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1756 - 1758
Liotard was already 54 when he married the 29-yearold Marie Fargues in Amsterdam in 1756. This extraordinary portrait – it is one of Liotard’s largest pastels and necessitated the use of two pieces of vellum – was probably done shortly following their wedding. Liotard chose a composition he had first used in a drawing made in Constantinople and had repeated several times in different contexts: it was, indeed, one of the most famous inventions of his persona as ‘Le peintre turc’.
- Artwork typedrawing, pastel
- Object numberSK-A-240
- Dimensionsheight 103.8 cm x width 79.8 cm, weight 14.1 kg
- Physical characteristicspastel on two pieces of vellum