FJK 078

Liotard Jean-Etienne (Swiss, Geneva 1702–1789 Geneva)

Study for a Young Roman Girl in Profile

ca. 1737
8 1/32 × 6 17/32 in. (204 × 166 mm) / Mount: 9 1/4 × 7 31/64 in. (235 × 190 mm)

Medium
Black and red chalk heightened with white chalk, and watercolor on off-white laid paper glued on card-board paper outlined in China ink wash

Signed on the reverse of mount: par Liotard de Genève
The reverse seen by transparency shows the highlighted figure like in the Louvre Portrait a Young Roman Girl in Profile (ca. 1737, Drawings Dept, Acc. no. RF.1386)

Origin

Francis Roux-Devillas Collection, Paris (1964)
Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 19, 1981, no. 121
Otto Wertheimer Collection, Paris
Gallery Les Tourelles, Basel
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired from previous owner on March 14, 1984), JK 3844
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, July 17 – September  20, 1992.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Dessins de Liotard, 1992, no. 6, ill.; Catalogue de l'œuvre dessiné, p. 276, no. 8.

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 110, no. 48, color ill. p. 111.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 134, no. 60, color ill. p. 135.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 174, no. 71, color ill. p. 175.