WORKSHOP OF JEAN-ETIENNE LIOTARD (GENEVA1702-1789)... - Lot 232 - Osenat

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WORKSHOP OF JEAN-ETIENNE LIOTARD (GENEVA1702-1789)... - Lot 232 - Osenat
WORKSHOP OF JEAN-ETIENNE LIOTARD (GENEVA1702-1789) "Portrait of Charles Simon Favart" Pastel on wove paper 70x55cm Born in Geneva, Liotard began his artistic training with a watch enameler, then proved to be an excellent draughtsman and pastelist. He became a traveling painter. He went to England, Constantinople, from where he returned in oriental costume to the court of Vienna. Our pastel represents a portrait of Charles Simon Favart (Paris 1710-1792), a famous playwright who wrote vaudevilles and comic operas. His artistic career took place at the Opéra-comique where he became director. Voltaire called him "one of the two conservators of French grace and gaiety". The artist was known for representing the naked truth without complacency through his models. Here, Favart is elegantly portrayed in a housedress holding a half-open book in his left hand, a symbol of his inspiration as a composer. It is a remake of a signed original, dated 1757 and kept in a private collection, made during the pastellist's second stay in Paris. Provenance: Private collection, France Bibliography: Catalogueraisonné de l'œuvre de Liotard par Marcel Roethlisberger et Renée Loche en deux volumes, Catalogue, sources et correspondance, p. 495(Vol. I), see for comparison the original reproduced in color p. 490(Vol. II), Davaco, 2008
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