# Marie Fargues, the Painter’s Wife

- By: Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
- Date: 1756 - 1758
- Medium: parchment (animal material)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 103.8 cm x width 79.8 cm
- Credit line: Bequeathed by Miss Marie-Anne Liotard, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-240--ec75b69657bf0a90b711e6889d86f78a)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/AXKRf/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)

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’.