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Marie Congnard-Bathailhy
Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1757
This touching and intimate portrait was made towards the end of Liotard’s first sojourn in the Netherlands. The sitter was the 65-year old grandmother of Liotard’s Dutch bride Marie Fargues, a Huguenot like himself, whom he married in Amsterdam in 1756. The virtuoso rendering of the sitter’s black lace pellerine has earned her the sobriquet ‘la dame aux dentelles’.
- Artwork typedrawing, pastel
- Object numberSK-A-231
- Dimensionsheight 57.5 cm x width 47 cm, weight 8.5 kg x height 71.4 cm x width 60.3 cm x thickness 5.5 cm
- Physical characteristicspastel on vellum