Portrait of Théodore Tronchin
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
plate: 8 1/8 x 5 11/16 in. (20.7 x 14.4 cm) sheet: 13 13/16 x 10 1/4 in. (35.1 x 26 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints, 2009
Accession Number
2009.468.5
Tags
Art Historical Context
This elegant *Portrait of Théodore Tron* (1782) is a collaborative print by Swiss portraitist Jean-Etienne Liotard engraver René Gaillard Liotard, renowned for his delicate pastel portraits that captured the Enlightenment elite with lifelike precision, likely provided the original design, while Gaillard translated it into a refined etching and engraving. The result is an intimate depiction of Tronchin, a prominent Genevan physician and intellectual, rendered in the meticulous style of 18th-century European portraiture. Etching and engraving were pivotal printmaking techniques of the Rococo an...
About the Artist
René Gaillard|Jean Etienne Liotard (French|French) · 1714 |1703 –1790 |1770
French, ca. 1719–1790 Paris|French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris