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accession number: 1978.54
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François Tronchin, 1757. Jean-Etienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702–1789). Pastel on parchment; unframed: 38 x 46.3 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1978.54
title: François Tronchin
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creation date: 1757
creation date earliest: 1757
creation date latest: 1757
current location:
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright:
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culture: Switzerland
technique: pastel on parchment
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Swiss
type: Drawing
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Roethlisberger 349
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CREATORS
* Jean-Etienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702–1789) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 38 x 46.3 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
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description: parchment
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inscription: signed and dated, in black crayon, at lower right: par. J.E. Liotard / 1757; on verso, in red: TH / 51; mark of the Tronchin family
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1978
opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).
title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00
Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "De Genève à l'Ermitage: les collections de François Tronchin. Musée Rath, Geneva (June 21 - September 15, 1974).", 'opening_date': '1974-06-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Exposition Jean Etienne Liotard, Johann Heinrich Füssli. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (April - June 1948).", 'opening_date': '1948-04-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Exposition d'oeuvres de Jean Etienne Liotard. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (May 1 - 31, 1925).", 'opening_date': '1925-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Exposition Jean-Etienne Liotard. Société des arts, Geneva (1886).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
François Tronchin [1704-1798], Geneva, by descent to Jean-Louis Robert Tronchin
date: 1757-1798
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citations:
Jean-Louis Robert Tronchin [1763-
?], Geneva, by descent to Armand Henri Tronchin
date: 1798-?
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citations:
Armand Henri Tronchin [1794-1865], Bessinge, Sweden, by descent to Louis-Rémy-Nosky Tronchin
date: ?-after 1865
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citations:
Louis-Rémy-Nosky Tronchin [1825-1873], Geneva, by descent to Henry Tonchin
date: after 1865-after 1873
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citations:
Henry Tronchin [1853-1891], by descent to Robert Tronchin
date: after 1873-after 1891
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citations:
Robert Tronchin [1883-?], by descent to Christiane Tronchin, Marquise de Hillerin, Paris
date: by 1925-by 1948
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citations:
Christiane Tronchin, Marquise de Hillerin, Paris, sold as part of the Tronchin collcetion to Xavier Givaudan
date: by 1948-1950
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citations:
Xavier Givaudan, Geneva, by descent to André Givaudan
date: 1950-by 1973
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citations:
André Givaudan, Geneva
date: by 1973-after 1974
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(Léon Givaudan, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: after 1974-1978
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citations:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1978-
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citations:
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Moücke, Francesco. "Liotard." In Serie di ritratti degli eccellenti pittori: dipinti di propria mano che esistono nell'Imperial galleria di Firenze, 273-76. Florence: Moücke, 1762.
page number: Mentioned.
url:
Tronchin, François. Catalogue des tableaux du cabinet de M. Tronchin, conseiller d'Etat à Genève. Geneva: Tronchin, 1765.
page number: Mentioned: p. 50
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Liotard, Jean-Etienne. Traité des principes et des règles de la peinture [1781] Repr. Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1945.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 108-9
url: http://doc.rero.ch/record/208704/files/BAA_IA_21.pdf
Sinner, Johann Rudolph. Voyage historique et littéraire dans la suisse occidentale. Neuchâtel: Imprimerie de la Société typographique, 1781.
page number: Mentioned: p. 42
url:
Exposition Jean-Etienne Liotard. Exh. Cat. Geneva: Société des arts, 1886.
page number: Mentioned: p. 7, no. 36
url:
Giron, C. "L'Exposition Liotard." Journal de Genève (May 12, 1886).
page number: Mentioned: n.p.
url:
Tronchin, Henry. Le Conseiller François Tronchin et ses amis Voltaire, Diderot, Grimm. Paris: Plon, 1895.
page number: Mentioned: p. 258
url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510021301824
Humbert, Édouard, Alphonse Revilliod, and J.W.R. Tilanus. La Vie et les oeuvres de Jean Etienne Liotard, étude biographique et iconographique. Amsterdam: C.M. Van Gogh, 1897.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 129-30, no. 78; Reproduced: p. 129
url: https://archive.org/details/lavieetlesoeuvre00humbuoft/page/n10/mode/2up
Baud-Bovy, Daniel. "Le Mouvemeent d'art en suisse, peintres genevois (XVIIIe siècle et commencement du XIXe), premier article." Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 542 (August 1902): 101-113.
page number: Mentioned: p. 105
url:
Crosnier, Jules. Nos Anciens et leurs oeuvres. Geneva: Léon Bovy, 1908.
page number: Mentioned: p. 104; Reproduced: n.p.
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Vaillat, Léandre. "Liotard." Les Arts 10 (October 1911): 1-32.
page number: Mentioned: p. 24
url:
Clouzot, Henri. "Les Pastels de Genève." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe 3 (1920): 158-165.
page number: Mentioned: p. 164
url:
"Catalogue des oeuvres de Liotard exposés au Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, du 1er au 31 mai 1925." Pages d'art, revue mensuelle suisse illustrée (January 1925).
page number: Mentioned: p. 103
url:
Gielly, Louis. "Les pastels de J.-É. Liotard à Genève," Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (1926).
page number: Mentioned: pp. 256, 271
url:
Gielly, Louis Jules. L'école genevoise de peinture. Geneva: Sonor, 1935.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 46, 207
url:
Ratouis de Limay, Paul. Le Pastel en France au XVIIIème siècle. Paris: Baudinière, 1946.
page number: Mentioned: p. 133
url:
Exposition Jean Etienne Liotard, Johann Heinrich Füssli. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie, 1948.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 13, 25, no. 14
url:
Benisovich, Michel N. "Les collections de tableaux du conseiller François Tronchin et le musée de l'Ermitage." Geneva 1 (1953): 25-51.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 40, no. 80, fig. 13
url:
Fosca, François. "Un peintre genevois du XVIIIe siècle: Jean-Etienne Liotard." Jardin des arts 27 (1957): 164-169.
page number: Mentioned: p. 168; Reproduced: p. 166
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Adair, Virginia and Lee. Eighteenth Century Pastel Portraits. London: John Gifford Ltd, 1971.
page number: Mentioned: p. 73
url:
De Genève à l'Ermitage: les collections de François Tronchin. Exh. Cat. Geneva: Musée Rath, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 175-78, no. 347; Reproduced: p. 177
url:
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 520; Mentioned: p. 521-522
url:
Georgel, Pierre and Anne-Marie Lecoq. La peinture dans la peinture. Exh. Cat. Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1982.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 161
url:
Duffin, Ross. Répertoire international d'iconographie musicale/International Repertory of Music Iconography Inventory of Music Iconography. New York: Research Center for Music Iconography, 1991.
page number: Mentioned: vol. 8, p. 11, no. 213
url:
Brown, Christopher, Jan Kelch, and Pieter J. J. van Thiel. Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop. Exh. Cat. London: National Gallery, 1991.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 230
url:
Herdt, Anne de. Dessins de Liotard: suivi du catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 182
url:
L'Age d'or flamand et hollandais: collections de Catherine II, Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg. Exh. Cat. Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1993.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 47
url:
Kathke, Petra. Porträt und Accessoire: eine Bildnisform im 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1997.
page number: Mentioned: p. 303; Reproduced: fig. 154
url:
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 12-13; Reproduced: p. 13
url:
Koos, Marianne. "'Malerei ohne Pockenspuren': Oberfläche im Werk von Jean-Etienne Liotard."Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 4, no. 70 (2007): 545-72.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 563-70; Reproduced: p. 564
url:
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page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 503-506, no. 349; Reproduced: vol. 2, fig. 499
url:
Bark, Julianna M. "Liotard, History Painting, and Mimesis." Cantor Arts Center Journal 6 (2008-9): 19-25.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 22
url:
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url:
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url:
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