Jean-Étienne Liotard is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jean-Étienne Liotard as Genevan painter (1702–1789).
Jean-Étienne Liotard was born at Geneva in 1702. His recorded nationality is Republic of Geneva.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter, draftsperson and printmaker.
His best-known work is The Chocolate Girl. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Republic of Geneva shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Étienne Liotard died in 1789, aged 87. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Chocolate Girl
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