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The Artist’s Niece, Marianne Lavergne, Known as ‘La Liseuse’
Also titled Marianne Lavergne, nicht van de kunstenaar, bekend als ‘La Liseuse’
Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
1746
- Medium
- parchment (animal material)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 54.5 cm x width 43 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Miss Marie-Anne Liotard, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This is the original of one of Liotard’s most famous compositions, of which he made several versions. He entitled it La Liseuse (the reader), and evidently intended it as a genre piece, although he also identified the figure as his niece wearing Lyonnaise costume. Liotard took it to Versailles in 1748 to advertise his skills as a pastellist to the French court.
