Live Auction 5077Christie's Interiors
Madame Vignier, née Marie-Anne Bassompierre (active France, 19th Century)
Lot 51

Madame Vignier, née Marie-Anne Bassompierre (active France, 19th Century)

Portrait of Jean-Etienne Liotard, seated, three-quarter length: a copy after Liotard

Closed21 January 2014

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GBP 1,875

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Madame Vignier, née Marie-Anne Bassompierre (active France, 19th Century)
Portrait of Jean-Etienne Liotard, seated, three-quarter length: a copy after Liotard
pastel on paper
38¾ x 28½ in. (98.3 x 72 cm.)

Mme Tilanus-Liotard, and by descent.
Tilanus collection; their sale, Amsterdam, 1934, lot 1034.
Alfred Hausammann, Zurich, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

A copy of Liotard's famous Self Portrait (circa 1749) in the Musée d'Art et Histoire, Geneva. The artist, Madame Vignier, was Liotard's granddaughter, the daughter of Marie-Jeanne Liotard who married Jean-François Bassompierre in 1782. An attribution to Madame Vignier was suggested by Marcel Roethlisberger in a letter to the present owners dated 8 December 2001.