JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (Geneva 1702-1789)

Lot 17
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Lot 17 | JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (Geneva 1702-1789)
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JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (Geneva 1702-1789)

‘La liseuse’ (Portrait of Susanna Lewis seated)

with inscription ‘Ms Susanna Campbell/ wife of Col. John Campbell/ of Blunham House Bedford Sh.e/ and of Dunoon in Argyle Sh.e/ Mother of Charlotte Julia/ Countess of Rothes/ Wife of 12th Earl/ Painted by/ Liotard in 1755/ An Italian Artist’ (on the back of the frame)

pastel, heightened with white bodycolor (or wet pastel), on vellum

25 3/4 x 20 in. (65.5 x 50.8 cm.)





Provenance

Susanna Lewis (1728-1804), wife of Colonel John Campbell (1736–1773), 11th of Inellan, Captain of Dunoon; by descent to her daughter

Charlotte Julia Campbell (died 1846), wife of George William Leslie, 13th Earl of Rothes (1768-1817); by descent to her daughter

Elizabeth Jane Leslie (died 1861), wife of Major Augustus Wathen; by descent to

Henrietta Anne Glanville Leslie, Countess of Rothes (1790-1819); by descent to

The Clan Leslie Charitable Trust; Christie’s, London, 4 July 1995, lot 149.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 346, ill.

M. Roethlisberger and N. Loche, Liotard, Doornspijk, 2008, no. 292, ill.

D. Bull, ‘Countess, Lover or Wife Liotard’s Lady on a Sofa’, The Burlington Magazine, CL, no. 1266, September 2008, p. 599.

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, published online at www.pastellists.com, no. J.49.18, ill (consulted July 2022).
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