JEAN-ETIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789)

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02.07.2024 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 189 000
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Los 128 | JEAN-ETIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789)
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£ 35 000 – 45 000
JEAN-ETIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789)

The Large Self-Portrait
mezzotint with roulette and engraving
circa 1778-80
on laid paper, watermark Name of Jesus in a Circle (similar to Gaudriault 737, dated circa 1770)
a brilliant, luminous impression of this very rare and important print
a very early, undescribed working proof before the first state (of two), printing with richly black areas in the background, on the jacket and the backrest of the chair, presumably where the burnishing of the mezzotint has not been completed, with sharp plate edges
with wide margins, scattered foxing and a few tears in the margins
the subject in very good condition
Plate 482 x 399 mm.
Sheet 554 x 442 mm.




Provenance

Probably Henri-Albert Gosse (1753-1816), Geneva; then by descent within the Gosse family to the present owner.



Literature

Humbert, Revilliod & Tilanus 8; Roethlisberger & Loche 522
Regency to Empire - French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art & The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985, exhib. cat., no. 84 (an impression with letters illustrated).
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