Liotard: The Unexpected Likeness
Jenny Uglow writes: ‘It’s odd when, after seeing an exhibition of portraits, the ones that stay in my mind aren’t of the great and good and glamorous, but of minor figures, slipped in among the throng—servants, or needlewomen, or children. This is certainly the case with the remarkable show of Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789) at Edinburgh. It’s two weeks now since I saw it, yet I’m still puzzling over the nature of the Swiss-French painter’s charm and strength.’
