The most popular work by Jean-Étienne Liotard is the focus of a knowledgeable and entertaining volume
Insight into the life and travels of the eccentric artist
With an interpretation by Hann Trier, who transformed Liotard’s masterpiece for the twentieth century in a three-part sequence “La Tasse au chocolat” in 1991
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“The most beautiful pastel ever seen”
The Chocolate Girl by Jean-Étienne Liotard in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie
The Chocolate Girl is one of the most famous works by the Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard. This richly illustrated volume leads the reader through the age in which it was created during the French-inspired Rococo and into the Vienna of Empress Maria Theresa, where the work was painted. It also explains the art of pastel painting, in which this enchanting work has been executed.
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The painting had a tremendous effect in those days and still does so today. Even during Liotard’s life (1702–1789) his pastel painting was highly valued, as the description by the most famous pastel artist Rosalba Carriera as “the most beautiful pastel” demonstrates. The Chocolate Girl shows a simple, unknown domestic servant, until then a rarely chosen subject. In its sober and precise observation it reflects the art of the Enlightenment as well as anticipating the realism of the nineteenth century. Chocolate itself, always associated with pleasure, contributes further to the particular charm. Characteristic works from other creative periods complete the overview of Liotard’s oeuvre.
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Ed. Roland Enke, Stephan Koja
for the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden
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272 pages, 218 illustrations
20 x 25 cm, hardcover
20 x 25 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3136-9
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Keywords
Choco, rococo, 18th century, painting, portrait
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