LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.43 in. (46.80 cm.) (height) by 15.35 in. (39.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Possibly Paris, Academy of Saint-Luc, 1752, no. 263;. London, Royal Academy, European Masters of the 18th Century, 1954, no.47; . London, National Gallery, on loan, April 2002 - March 2015; . London, Royal Academy, Jean-Etienne Liotard 1702-1789 , 24 October 2015 - 31 January 2016, no. 75. .

Literature:

E. Humbert, A. Revilliod and J.W.R. Tilanus,. La vie et les Œuvres de Jean Etienne Liotard , Amsterdam 1897, p. 139, no. 112, reproduced;. L. Gielly, L'Ecole genevoise de Peinture , Geneva 1935, pp. 50, 203; . N. Trivas, n.t. MS monograph and catalogue of the work of Liotard, 3 vols, 1936, no. 253, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire; . Frederick Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough , A Place in the Forest, being a history of Stansted in Sussex , London 1958, p.119; . A. Staring, 'Hollandse werken van Liotard en Perroneau', in Oud Holland , 1959, p. 228, reproduced; . R. Loche and M. Roethlisberger, L'opera completa di Liotard , Milan 1978, p. 93, no. 57, reproduced in colour; . F. Grijzenhout, Liotard in Nederland , exhibition catalogue, Utrecht 1985, pp. 68-71, reproduced fig. 34; . Frederick Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough, and C. Aslet , A Place in the Forest, being a history of Stansted in Sussex , London 1984, p. 142; . B. Scott, 'A Turkish sensation', in Country Life, 1985, p. 1574; . M. Roethlisberger, 'Holländsiche Malerei in der Westschweiz', in Im Lichte Hollands , Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein und aus Schweizer Besitz , exhibition catalogue, Zurich and Basel 1987, p. 42, reproduced fig. 2; . M. Roland-Michel, Chardin , Paris 1994, p. 254; . M. Roethlisberger and R. Loche, Liotard, Catalogue Sources et Correspondence , 2008, Vol. I, p. 493, no. 342; Vol. II, fig. 488; . C. Baker, W. Hauptman and M. Stevens, Jean-Etienne Liotard 1702-1789 , exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy, 2015, pp. 169, 172-173, 210, cat. no. 75, reproduced.

Provenance:

Jean Etienne Liotard, his exhibition sale, Great Marlborough Street, London, 6-9 July 1773, lot 55 ('A Dutch girl pouring coffee'), unsold; . Jean Etienne Liotard, his sale, London, Christie's, 16 April 1774, lot 33 ('A Dutch girl at breakfast'), for £15.4s.6d.; . Acquired at the above sale by William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (1704-1793); . Thence by descent to Frederick Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough DL (1913-1993); . By whom bequeathed to the Stansted Park Foundation. .