Jean Etienne Liotard
Lot 30 An important group of prints by Jean Etienne Liotard from a private Swiss collection.

Jean Etienne Liotard

The small Self-Portrait (T. 9; R., L. 523)

Closed8 April 2009

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Jean Etienne Liotard
The small Self-Portrait (T. 9; R., L. 523)
mezzotint with roulette and engraving, a good, atmospheric impression, trimmed inside the platemark but outside the subject, minor defects at the sheet edges on the reverse where previously mounted, generally in good condition
S. 210 x 165 mm.

Specialist note

The present composition, a reduced-scale version of the previous lot, was engraved by Liotard for inclusion in his treatise Du Clair-obscur, published in 1781.