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This pastel drawing depicts François Tronchin, a prominent figure in his native Geneva and an impassioned patron of the arts. The table before Tronchin features a book, mathematical instruments, and papers that indicate his interests in architecture and music. Rembrandt's <em>Lady in Bed</em>, a painting that the Dutch master created around 1645 (today in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery) and the most highly prized painting in Tronchin's collection, rests on an easel nearby. Liotard considered the portrait of Tronchin among his finest works, and the meticulous rendering of the sitter's powdered wig, transparent flesh, and lace cuffs suggest the skill he had developed in pastel at this time.
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149399
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François Tronchin
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149399
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François Tronchin
description
This pastel drawing depicts François Tronchin, a prominent figure in his native Geneva and an impassioned patron of the arts. The table before Tronchin features a book, mathematical instruments, and papers that indicate his interests in architecture and music. Rembrandt's <em>Lady in Bed</em>, a painting that the Dutch master created around 1645 (today in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery) and the most highly prized painting in Tronchin's collection, rests on an easel nearby. Liotard considered the portrait of Tronchin among his finest works, and the meticulous rendering of the sitter's powdered wig, transparent flesh, and lace cuffs suggest the skill he had developed in pastel at this time.
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1757
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en
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Q60780789
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12028
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Unframed: 38 x 46.3 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
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Switzerland
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1978.54
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pastel on parchment
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François Tronchin, 1757. Jean-Etienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702–1789). Pastel on parchment; unframed: 38 x 46.3 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1978.54
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signed and dated, in black crayon, at lower right: par. J.E. Liotard / 1757
inscription
on verso, in red: TH / 51; mark of the Tronchin family
didYouKnow
Jean-Etienne Liotard created portraits of eight other members of the Tronchin family around the same time as this pastel.
citations
citation
Moücke, Francesco. "Liotard." In <em>Serie di ritratti degli eccellenti pittori: dipinti di propria mano che esistono nell'Imperial galleria di Firenze</em>, 273-76. Florence: Moücke, 1762.
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Mentioned.
citation
Tronchin, François. <em>Catalogue des tableaux du cabinet de M. Tronchin, conseiller d'Etat </em>à <em>Genève</em>. Geneva: Tronchin, 1765.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 50
citation
Liotard, Jean-Etienne. <em>Traité des principes et des règles de la peinture </em>[1781] Repr. Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1945.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 108-9
citation
Sinner, Johann Rudolph. <em>Voyage historique et littéraire dans la suisse occidentale</em>. Neuchâtel: Imprimerie de la Société typographique, 1781.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 42
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<em>Exposition Jean-Etienne Liotard</em>. Exh. Cat. Geneva: Société des arts, 1886.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 7, no. 36
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Giron, C. "L'Exposition Liotard." <em>Journal de Genève</em> (May 12, 1886).
page_number
Mentioned: n.p.
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Tronchin, Henry. <em>Le Conseiller François Tronchin et ses amis Voltaire, Diderot, Grimm. </em>Paris: Plon, 1895.<strong><br></strong>
page_number
Mentioned: p. 258
citation
Humbert, Édouard, Alphonse Revilliod, and J.W.R. Tilanus. <em>La Vie et les oeuvres de Jean Etienne Liotard, étude biographique et iconographique</em>. Amsterdam: C.M. Van Gogh, 1897.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 129-30, no. 78; Reproduced: p. 129
citation
Baud-Bovy, Daniel. "Le Mouvemeent d'art en suisse, peintres genevois (XVIIIe siècle et commencement du XIXe), premier article." <em>Gazette des beaux-arts, </em>no. 542 (August 1902): 101-113.
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Mentioned: p. 105
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Crosnier, Jules. <em>Nos Anciens et leurs oeuvres</em>. Geneva: Léon Bovy, 1908.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 104; Reproduced: n.p.
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Vaillat, Léandre. "Liotard." <em>Les Arts</em> 10 (October 1911): 1-32.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 24
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Clouzot, Henri. "Les Pastels de Genève." <em>La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe</em> 3 (1920): 158-165.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 164
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"Catalogue des oeuvres de Liotard exposés au Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, du 1er au 31 mai 1925." <em>Pages d'art, revue mensuelle suisse illustrée</em> (January 1925).
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Mentioned: p. 103
citation
Gielly, Louis. "Les pastels de J.-É. Liotard à Genève," <em>Revue de l'art ancien et moderne </em>(1926).
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 256, 271
citation
Gielly, Louis Jules. <em>L'école genevoise de peinture</em>. Geneva: Sonor, 1935.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 46, 207
citation
Ratouis de Limay, Paul. <em>Le Pastel en France au XVIIIème siècle</em>. Paris: Baudinière, 1946.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 133
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<em>Exposition Jean Etienne Liotard, Johann Heinrich Füssli</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie, 1948.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 13, 25, no. 14
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Benisovich, Michel N. "Les collections de tableaux du conseiller François Tronchin et le musée de l'Ermitage." <em>Geneva</em> 1 (1953): 25-51.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 40, no. 80, fig. 13
citation
Fosca, François. "Un peintre genevois du XVIIIe siècle: Jean-Etienne Liotard." <em>Jardin des arts</em> 27 (1957): 164-169.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 168; Reproduced: p. 166
citation
Adair, Virginia and Lee. <em>Eighteenth Century Pastel Portraits</em>. London: John Gifford Ltd, 1971.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 73
citation
<em>De Genève à l'Ermitage: les collections de François Tronchin. </em>Exh. Cat. Geneva: Musée Rath, 1974.<em><br></em>
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 175-78, no. 347; Reproduced: p. 177
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–47.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 23; Mentioned: p. 43, no. 36
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art<em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 520; Mentioned: p. 521-522
citation
Georgel, Pierre and Anne-Marie Lecoq. <em>La peinture dans la peinture</em>. Exh. Cat. Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 161
citation
Duffin, Ross. <em>Répertoire international d'iconographie musicale/International Repertory of Music Iconography Inventory of Music Iconography</em>. New York: Research Center for Music Iconography, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 8, p. 11, no. 213
citation
Brown, Christopher, Jan Kelch, and Pieter J. J. van Thiel. <em>Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop</em>. Exh. Cat. London: National Gallery, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 230
citation
Herdt, Anne de. <em>Dessins de Liotard: suivi du catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné</em>. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 182
citation
<em>L'Age d'or flamand et hollandais: collections de Catherine II, Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg. </em>Exh. Cat. Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1993.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 47
citation
Apgar, Garry, and Jean Huber. <em>L’art Singulier de Jean Huber : Voir Voltaire</em>. Paris: A. Biro, 1995.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 168; reproduced: p. 166, no. 140
citation
Kathke, Petra. <em>Porträt und Accessoire: eine Bildnisform im 16. Jahrhundert</em>. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1997.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 303; Reproduced: fig. 154
citation
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 12-13; Reproduced: p. 13
citation
Koos, Marianne. "'Malerei ohne Pockenspuren': Oberfläche im Werk von Jean-Etienne Liotard."<em>Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte </em>4, no. 70 (2007): 545-72.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 563-70; Reproduced: p. 564
citation
Roethlisberger, Marcel and Renée Loche. <em>Liotard: catalogue, sources et correspondance</em>. Doornspijk: Davaco, 2008.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 503-506, no. 349; Reproduced: vol. 2, fig. 499
citation
Bark, Julianna M. "Liotard, History Painting, and Mimesis." <em>Cantor Arts Center Journal</em> 6 (2008-9): 19-25.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 22
citation
Lorenzo, Andrea di. "Sotto segno di Correggio. Due progetti per soffitti illusionistici: Una proposta per il Giovane Primaticcio." <em>Nuovi Studi</em> 14, no. 15 (2009): 153-64.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 154; Reproduced: fig. 175
citation
Buyssens, Danielle. <em>La question de l'art à Genève, du cosmopolitisme des lumières au romantisme des nationalité</em>s. Ph.D. diss. Université de Lille 3, 2011.
page_number
Reproduced: pl. V
citation
Blumle, Claudia. "Das Bild als Vorhang." In<em> Hinter dem Vorhang: Verhüllung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance - von Tizian bis Christo</em>. Oakar Bätschmann, et.al. Munich: Hirmer, 2016.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 33
citation
Wetering, Ernst van de, Murray Pearson, Carin van Nes, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited - a Complete Survey : a Reprint of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI. 2017.
page_number
Reproduced and mentioned; vol. 2 p. 585, fig. 3
citation
Guichard, Charlotte.<em> La griffe du peintre: la valeur de l'art (1730-1820)</em>. <br>Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2018.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 6-8, fig. 1; Mentioned: p. 9
citation
Salmon, Xavier. Pastels in the Musée Du Louvre: 17th and 18th Centuries. 2018.
page_number
p. 210
citation
Grijzenhout, F., and Jean-Etienne Liotard.<em> Liotard in Nederland</em>. Utrecht: Kwadraat, 1985.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 63.
citation
Guichard, Charlotte. "Signatures, Authorship and Autographie in Eighteenth-Century French Painting." <em>Art History </em>41, no. 2 (April 2018): 266-291.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 272-273, fig. 3 & 4
citation
Oberli, Matthias. Mit Pinsel, Palette und Perücke: Barocke Malerei in der Schweiz. Basel : Schwabe Verlag, Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG, 2021.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 38-39, Abb. 21
citation
Kruse, Jillian. “Imagination in the Age of Reason: Prints and drawings showcase imagination's power.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>65, no. 3 (2024): 6-7.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 6; Mentioned: p. 7
citation
Black, Emily, and Philippe Clerc. <em>Collection Du Crest: Artistes de L’Ecole Genevoise</em>. Genève: Éditions Notari, 2025.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26, fig. 8
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Roethlisberger 349
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John L. Severance Fund
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