Jean-Louis Buisson-Boissier
Artist
Jean-Étienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702–1789)Swiss, 1702–1789
CultureSwiss
Titles
- Jean-Louis Buisson-Boissier
Datec. 1764
MediumPastel on vellum
Dimensions24 7/16 × 19 1/4 in. (62.1 × 48.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number86.28
Not on view
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Exhibition HistoryExhibited: Zeichnen Malen Formen, Schweizerische Landesausstellung, Kunsthaus Zürich, May 20 - August 6, 1939, no. 462
Exhibited: A Magic Mirror: The Portrait in France 1700-1900, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1987
"English Taste: The Art of Dining in the Eighteenth Century," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 17 September 2011 - 29 January 2012.
Published References The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Album 2, Templegate Publishing, 1983, advertisement from Galeria Römer, Zurich "Art Across North America," Apollo, January 1987, p. 64-65 Marzio, Peter, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Permanent Legacy, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989, p. 160, illus. p. 161 Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts, Frameworks, London, 1996, p.228. (frame information). Edgar Peters Bowron and Mary G. Morton, Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 120-122, illus. p. 121
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