Portrait of a Man — Jean Etienne Liotard | DiscoverArt

Jean Etienne Liotard

Portrait of a Man

1755–65

Red and black chalk on off-white laid paper, verso worked in black chalk (in area corresponding to the sitter's jacket on the recto)

24.1 × 18.7 cm (9.5 × 7.4 in)

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