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Showing posts with label Jean-Étienne Liotard. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Twenty-eight gentlemen - a selection of portraits and self-portraits

 
Self-portrait, by Joseph Highmore, 1747.
Self-portrait at the age of twenty, by Sir David Wilkie, between 1804 and 1805.
Self-portrait, by George Hendrik Breitner, 1882.
French School, circa 1780s.
Ignazio Degotti, scenographer of the Paris Opéra, miniature by Ferdinando Quaglia, 1812.
Jules Richemont, by Gustave Caillebotte, 1879.
Count Sergei Platonovich Zubov, by Giovanni Boldini, 1913.
"Black Hunter" - portrait of David Lawrence, by Andrew Wyeth, 1938.
The poet Janko Lavrin, by Boris Kustodiev, 1909.
The sculptor Alessandro Vittoria, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1552.
Raymond de Verninac, by Henri-François Riesener, circa 1822-25.
Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1762.
Self-portrait, by Eliseu Visconti, circa 1900.
Portrait of a man with glasses, attributed to Rembrandt Peale or French School, circa 1820s.   
Alfonso XIII, by Ramón Casas y Carbó, 1904.
Lord Berners (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners), by Rex Whistler, 1924.
The sculptor Tommaso Bandini, cousin of the artist, by Enrico Bandini, circa 1835.
Portrait of a man, called "Il Condottiere", possibly Sforza Maria Sforza, by Antonello da Messina,  circa 1475.
Selbstbildnis im Gruenen (self-portrait in the green), by Siegfried von Leth, 1906.
 Portrait of a gentleman, Anthonis Mor, circa 1570.
Matreier Bub (boy from Matrei), by Franz Eichhorst, circa 1920s.
Leo Ornstein at the Piano, by Leon Kroll, 1918.
 John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1763.
Camillo Borghese (Don Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese, Prince of Sulmona and of Rossano, Duke and Prince of Guastalla), by François Gérard, circa 1810.
Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1819.
Presumed Portrait of Jean André Soubry, by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1729.
The painter Eduard Bendemann, by Friedrich von Amerling, 1837.
Francis Owen in van Dyck costume, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1773.



Sunday, November 19, 2023

Les dames du dix-huitième - selected portraits

 
Portrait presumed to be Miss Buchanan, English School, circa 1790.
Maria Fortunata d'Este, princesse de Conti, by Dominique Vivant Denon, circa 1780.
Unfinished portrait of Princess Sofia Albertina of Sweden, by Lorens Pasch the Younger, 1768.
Portrait of a lady said to be madame de Bellegarde, circle of Vigée Le Brun, Circa 1790.
Mrs. Paul Cobb Methuen, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1776-1777.
Portrait d'une dame de qualité, studio of Antoine Vestier, circa 1778.
Miss Theophila Offy Palmer, the future Mrs. Gwatkin, a portrait believed to be the work of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s sister, Frances Fanny Reynolds, circa 1770s.
The duchesse d'Aiguillon, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1790.
Mary Christina Conquest, Lady Arundell of Wardour, in coronation robes, by George Romney, circa 1770.
 Madame Sophie de France, daughter of Louis XV, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1750-51.
Maria Geronima Pellegrina "Lilla" Cambiaso and her daughter Caterina, by Anton Von Maron, 1792.
The depiction of the drapery is perfection, the detail of the two shoes, charming.
The artist's wife, by François-Xavier Fabre, circa 1790s.
The courtesan Kitty Fisher, by Nathaniel Hone, 1765.
The wonderful addition of the cat and fishbowl is a cheeky reference to the name of the sitter.
 Charlotte Herts, wife of Charles-François de Casteele, by Nicolas-Guy Brenet, 1770.
Portrait of a young woman, by Marie-Geneviève Navarre, 1774.