# Portrait of Catherine Bégon

- By: Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
- Date: 1746
- Medium: parchment (animal material)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 62.8 cm x width 49 cm
- Credit line: Bequeathed by Miss Marie-Anne Liotard, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-233--97c073d010dd77939f2036a28dd2bfbc)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/nrGeb/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This portrait of Catherine Bégon is the pendant of the likeness of her husband Joseph Bouër. She wears a Venetian carnival costume, fashionable at masquerades. The frame is original, like that of her husband's portrait, with the sitter’s coat-of-arms carved into it.