Jean-Etienne LiotardSwiss, 1702–1789Marie Congnard-Bathailhy
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Marie Congnard-Bathailhy” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
This touching and intimate portrait was made towards the end of Liotard’s first sojourn in the Netherlands. The sitter was the 65-year old grandmother of Liotard’s Dutch bride Marie Fargues, a Huguenot like himself, whom he married in Amsterdam in 1756. The virtuoso rendering of the sitter’s black lace pellerine has earned her the sobriquet ‘la dame aux dentelles’.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- SK-A-231
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
In the life of Jean-Etienne Liotard
The whole life1756
Travels to the Dutch Republic
In 1756 he travels to the Dutch Republic, where he will marry the following year.
1757
Marries Marie Fargues
In 1757, in the Dutch Republic, he marries Marie Fargues; she also came from a Huguenot family and wanted him to shave off his beard.
18 November 1758
Son born: Jean-Étienne Liotard
