Marie Fargues, the Painter’s Wife
Also titled Marie Fargues, echtgenote van de kunstenaar
Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
1756 - 1758
- Medium
- parchment (animal material)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 103.8 cm x width 79.8 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 was already 54 when he married the 29-yearold Marie Fargues in Amsterdam in 1756. This extraordinary portrait – it is one of Liotard’s largest pastels and necessitated the use of two pieces of vellum – was probably done shortly following their wedding. Liotard chose a composition he had first used in a drawing made in Constantinople and had repeated several times in different contexts: it was, indeed, one of the most famous inventions of his persona as ‘Le peintre turc’.
