|
La Belle Chocolatière
''The Chocolate Girl'' or ''The Chocolate Girl of Vienna''(, ) is one of the best known pastels of the Republic of Geneva, Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard, which is in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany. The pastel depicts a maid carrying a lacquer serving tray holding a glass of water and a porcelain cup filled with drinking chocolate. The maid and the objects in the picture are executed with almost photographic accuracy while the background consists only of a light-colored wall and the floor of plain floorboards.Das Schokoladenmädchen on the website of Zu Gast in Dresden ''The Chocolate Girl'' was highly praised by Liotard's contemporaries. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Étienne Liotard
Jean-Étienne Liotard () or Giovanni Stefano Liotard (22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Genevan painter, pastellist, printmaker, art theorist and art dealer. Born in the Republic of Geneva as the son of exiled French Huguenots, he spent most of his career working in cities such Rome, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, London, Amsterdam and other cities. He is best known for his detailed, strikingly naturalistic portraits in pastel and Orientalist scenes of life in Turkey. As an art theorist he wrote the ''Traité des Principes et règles de la Peinture'' (Treatise on the Principles and Rules of Painting) in which he argued that painting should to be a mirror of nature.Bell, Janis. "Jean-Étienne Liotard: The Rules of Art and the Late Still Life Paintings." Iconocrazia [Online], 2.24 (2023): 107-128. Consulted on 5 June 2025 Life Liotard was born in Geneva as the son of Antoine, a merchant and citizen of Geneva, and Anne Sauvage. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
