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Jean-Étienne Liotard

1702 - 1789

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Jean-Étienne Liotard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ etjɛn ljɔtaʁ]) or Giovanni Stefano Liotard (22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Genevan painter, pastellist, printmaker, art theorist and art dealer. Born in the Republic of Geneva as the son of exiled French Huguenots, he spent most of his career working in cities such as Rome, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, London, Amsterdam and other cities. He is best known for his detailed, strikingly naturalistic portraits in pastel and Orientalist scenes of life in Turkey. As an art theorist he wrote the Traité des Principes et règles de la Peinture (Treatise on the Principles and Rules of Painting) in which he argued that painting should to be a mirror of nature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Étienne Liotard is the 447th most popular painter (down from 407th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 115th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 447 out of 2,023. Before him are Marie Laurencin, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Sigmar Polke, Hubert Robert, Piero Manzoni, and Lucian Freud. After him are Mikhail Vrubel, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Theophanes the Greek, Cima da Conegliano, and Arkhip Kuindzhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1702, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 5. Before him are Muhammad Shah, Anne Bonny, Emperor Nakamikado, and Thomas Bayes. After him are Maria Clementina Sobieska, Legall de Kermeur, Francesco Zuccarelli, Enrichetta d'Este, William Fermor, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Jacques Aved. Among people deceased in 1789, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 6. Before him are Abdul Hamid I, Baron d'Holbach, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, and Claude Joseph Vernet. After him are Ethan Allen, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Petrus Camper, and Thomas Nelson Jr..

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 129 out of 1,015. Before him are Paul Guldin (1577), Didier Queloz (1966), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Marthe Keller (1945), and Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945). After him are Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), and Rodolphe Töpffer (1799).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 12. Before him are Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), H. R. Giger (1940), Charles Gleyre (1806), Albert Anker (1831), and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889). After him are Matthäus Merian (1593), Théophile Steinlen (1859), Anton Graff (1736), Jost Amman (1539), Eugène Grasset (1845), and Bertha Wegmann (1847).

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