4TH JULY −
13TH SEPTEMBER 2015
A stunning exhibition celebrating one of
the greatest artists of the eighteenth century. The work of Jean-Etienne
Liotard (1702-89) has been rarely exhibited and this is the first time it will
be comprehensively celebrated in Britain.
Liotard enjoyed a long career and his finest portraits
display an astonishing hyper-realism achieved through a combination of
incredible, intense observation and remarkable technical skills. He excelled at
the delicate art of pastel, but also drew, painted in oil, created enamels, and
was a refined miniaturist and printmaker. His activity was prodigious: Liotard
wrote a treatise on painting, was a collector, a dealer, a traveller and an
artistic innovator. In the age of Mozart and Casanova, he was a key international
figure whose achievement deserves to be better known.
Highlights of this important show include famous
portraits, startling self-portraits, and brilliant experiments with genre and
still-life subjects from the end of his career.
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