LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel on paper, laid down on canvas

Measurements:

27.68 in. (70.30 cm.) (height) by 22.17 in. (56.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Zurich, Kunsthaus, . Jean-Etienne Liotard. Sammlung des Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genf, 1978, ex-catalogue (according to a label on the back of the frame);. Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, and Paris, Musée du Louvre, Dessins de Liotard , 1992, no. 29

Literature:

R. Loche, . Jean-Etienne Liotard, Geneva 1976, under no. 3;. R. Loche and M. Roethlisberger, L'opera completa di Liotard , Milan 1978, no. 53; . F. Zegler, Stiftung Oskar Reinhart Winterthur , Zürich 1981, under no. 105; . A. Boppe, Les peintres du Bosphore au XVIIIe siècle , Courbevoie 1989, p. 285; . R. Loche, J.-E. Liotard dans les collections genevoises , Milan 1990, no. 1, illustrated in colour; . M. Roethlisberger and R. Loche, Liotard , 2 vols., Doornspijk 2008, vol. I, p. 464, no. 297, reproduced vol. II, pl. 433

Provenance:

Probably John Hawkins (1761-1841);. By inheritance to his son John Heywood Hawkins (1802-1877), Bignor Park, Pulborough, Sussex; . By inheritance to his nephew John Heywood Johnstone (1850-1904); . By inheritance to his widow, Mrs. John Heywood Johnstone (d. 1924), . Her estate sale, London, Christie's, 20 February 1925, lot 44; . Purchased at the above sale by Mrs Heywood Johnstone's son-in-law, Robert Beart Lucas, Shillington Manor, Hitchin, Herts; . With Rodolphe Dunki, Geneva; . From whom acquired in 1937 by Bernard Naef, Geneva; . By inheritance to his son, from whose estate sold, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995, lot 148; . There acquired for the present collection