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Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France
Also titled Maria Josepha van Saksen, Dauphine van Frankrijk
Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
1749
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 113.6 cm x width 88.8 cm x thickness 6.3 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
According to Liotard, the dauphine was so impressed by Liotard’s pastels, among them La Liseuse, that Liotard was invited to make portraits of almost the entire French royal family. This example, which Liotard kept for himself, is one of the most charming in its simple presentation of the newlywed young princess.
