An Elegant Young Woman in Maltese Costume

c. 1744

Jean-Étienne Liotard

Artist, Swiss, 1702 - 1789

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

East Woodhay Collection. (sale, Fosters', Pall Mall, London, 27 April, 1870, no. 501); the Earl of Southesk, Kinnaird Castle, Brechin; (Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1949); A. C. Nussbaumer, Lugano; (sale, Sotheby's London, 10 December 1979, no. 235); Baron Thyssen Bornemisza, Lugano; (sale, Sotheby's London, 10 July 2002, no. 211); P. & D. Colnaghi, London; NGA purchase in 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1904

  • Earl of Southesk, John. Catalogue of Pictures at Kinnaird Castle. mss. inv., 1904, no. G 134 (photocopy of page in object file).

1978

  • Loche, Renée, and Roethlisberger, Marcel. L'opera completa di Liotard. Milan, 1978: 90-91, no. 34.

1980

  • Art at Auction, The Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979-1980. London, 1980: reprod. p. 39 (color).

1988

  • Piro, Nicholas. The International Dictionary of Artists Who Painted Malta. Valetta, 1988: 134, fig. 1.

1992

  • De Herdt, Anne. Dessins de Liotard, Suivi du catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné. Exh. cat. Geneva and Paris, 1992:36, under no. 8.

2003

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Jean-Étienne Liotard, An Elegant Woman in Maltese Costume," National Gallery of Art Bulletin, no. 29, Spring 2003: 15-16.

2015

  • Baker, Christopher, et al. Jean Etienne Liotard, 1702 - 1789. London, 2015: 39 and fig. 22 (as dated 1738).

2016

  • Warner-Johnson, Tim, and Jeremy Howard, eds. Colnaghi: Past, Present and Future: An Anthology. London, 2016: 200-201, color plate 9.

Wikidata ID

Q64581202

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