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Portrait of Marthe Marie Tronchin
Provenance
Husband of the sitter, Jean-Robert Tronchin (died 1793), Geneva [invoice]; by descent to his brother, François Tronchin (died 1798) [invoice]; by descent to Jean-Louis-Robert Tronchin [invoice]; by descent to Louis-Rémy-Nosky Tronchin [invoice]; by descent to Henri Tronchin [invoice]; by descent to Robert Tronchin, by 1925 [Geneva 1925]; by descent to Christiane Tronchin, Marquise de Hillerin, Geneva, by 1948 [Paris 1948]; sold Xavier Givaudan, Geneva, 1950 [invoice and letter from Guy Stair Sainty of Jan. 25, 1985 in curatorial file]; by descent to André Givaudan, Geneva, by 1974 [Geneva 1974]. Léon Givaudan [invoice]. Sold by Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.
Exhibition history
Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, "Liotard," May 1-31, 1925. Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "Jean Étienne Liotard/Johann Heinrich Füssli," April-June 1948, cat. 18. Geneva, Musée Rath, "De Genève à l’Ermitage: Les collections de François Tronchin," June 21-September 15, 1974, cat. 15. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1988-May 31, 1990 (installation).
Publications
"Catalogue des oeuvres de Liotard," Pages d’Art (May 1925), p. 104 (ill.). François Fosca, Liotard (Paris, 1928), p. 162. François Fosca, La Vie les Voyages et les Oeuvres de Jean-Étienne Liotard (Lausanne, 1956), p. 81. Renée Loche and Marcel Roethlisberger, L’opera Completa di Liotard (Milan, 1978), pp. 109-10, no. 228 (ill.). James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 208 (ill.). Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 134 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Étienne Liotard / Swiss, 1702-1789
- Date
- 1758/61
- Medium
- Pastel on vellum
- Dimensions
- 61 × 47 cm (24 1/16 × 18 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1985.252
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