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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca, author.
Imprint:	London : National Gallery Global, 2023. New Haven : Yale University Press
Description:	112 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 25 x 21 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Discover ; 2 Discover ; 2.
Subject:	Liotard, Jean-Etienne, -- 1702-1789. -- Lavergne family breakfast -- Exhibitions. Pastel drawing -- 18th century -- Exhibitions. exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13353122

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Varying Form of Title:	Liotard and the Lavergne family breakfast
Other authors / contributors:	Moon, Iris, contributor. National Gallery (Great Britain), host institution, issuing body. Yale University Press, publisher.
ISBN:	9781857097023 1857097025
Notes:	Published in the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at the National Gallery, London, 16 November 2023-3 March 2024. Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-106).
Summary:	The second book in the 'Discover' series, this illuminating study explores Liotard's little-known The Lavergne Family Breakfast (1754), widely regarded as a pastel masterpiece. Jean-Etienne Liotard's 'The Lavergne Family Breakfast', acquired by the National Gallery in 2019, is one of the Gallery's most important eighteenth-century pictures and one of the artist's largest and most ambitious pastel. Last exhibited in 1755, when Liotard brought the pastel from Lyon to London (an incredible feat in itself given the fragility of pastel), it has hardly been seen in public since. Exploring the pastel medium, Liotard's itinerant career and the stories behind the objects he depicts, this catalogue puts Liotard and 'The Lavergne Family Breakfast' in the spotlight. Liotard was a flamboyant artist and unusually well travelled for his time, spending four formative years in Constantinople and working at the courts of Vienna, Paris and London, as well as in commercial centres such as Lyon and Amsterdam, becoming a celebrity wherever he went. This beautifully illustrated publication offers readers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth century and an accessible introduction to a particularly idiosyncratic and gifted artist. Exhibition: The National Gallery, London, UK (16.11.2023 - 03.03.2024).

Table of Contents:

Director's Foreword
1. The Many Faces of Jean-Etienne Liotard
2. 'Precious Dust': The Rise of Pastel in Eighteenth-Century Europe
3. The Lavergne Family Breakfast
4. Of Pastels and Porcelain
Notes
Bibliography
List of Exhibited Works
List of Lenders
Acknowledgements
Photographic Credits