LIOTARD: A PORTRAIT OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
Written by Christopher Baker
Illustrated by Jean-Etienne Liotard
Published by Unicorn
in 2023
ISBN: 9781911397595
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LIOTARD: A PORTRAIT OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
Written by Christopher Baker.
Illustrated by Jean-Etienne Liotard.
Stock no. 1831010
1st.
2023.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The career and practice and reputation of an extraordinary artist that is Jean-Etienne Liotard, one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of eighteenth century Europe. This study throws light on the wider cultural environment he navigated, illuminating connected themes, including fashion history, orientalism and the promotion and display of portraits in the public and private spheres of Englightenment Europe. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. 175 pages including index. ISBN: 9781911397595. Light rubbing to top & tail of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.