Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Holy Roman Empress
Also titled Maria Theresia, aartshertogin van Oostenrijk, koningin van Hongarije en Bohemen, en Rooms-Duits keizerin
Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
1747
- Medium
- copper (metal), email
- Classification
- miniature (painting)
- Dimensions
- height 62 cm x width 51 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
Liotard made this enamel during a visit to Lyon, basing it on one of several portraits of the sovereign he had earlier done in Vienna. He was particularly proud of the ‘brilliance’ of the hard gem-like surface and colouring. It is one of the largest enamel paintings ever made, and the technique gave Liotard some difficulty: an inscription on the back records that this was the ‘second attempt.’
