Geneva-born Swiss-French painter Jean-Étienne Liotard was a versatile painter of many subjects but came to specialize in scenes of ordinary life in the Ottoman Empire after making a journey to Istanbul, presaging the Orientalist style. “The Reader” is a delightful pastel on parchment that pictures a young lady, lost romantic in a letter.
La liseuse, c.1746, Pastel on ParchmentJean-Étienne Liotard Swiss (1702 - 1789) |
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Geneva-born Swiss-French painter Jean-Étienne Liotard was a versatile painter of many subjects but came to specialize in scenes of ordinary life in the Ottoman Empire after making a journey to Istanbul, presaging the Orientalist style. “The Reader” is a delightful pastel on parchment that pictures a young lady, lost romantic in a letter. |
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