Portrait of Marthe Marie Tronchin

1758/61

Jean-Étienne Liotard
Swiss, 1702-1789

An admirer of Rosalba Carriera, Liotard evolved a highly personal, realist style that was not well received by the Academicians in Paris, but was welcomed in England, Holland, and his native Geneva. This portrait was made at the height of Liotard’s career in Geneva, during a period (c. 1757-63) in which he portrayed the most politically and intellectually vital individuals in that city. Liotard depicted no less than eight members of the Tronchin family, one of the most important and influential dynasties of the Swiss Republic.

Status: On View, Gallery 216
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Etienne Liotard
Title: Portrait of Marthe Marie Tronchin
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1758–1761
Medium: Pastel on vellum
Dimensions: 61 × 47 cm (24 1/16 × 18 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1985.252
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“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.).

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).

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 January 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, 1985.

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