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Count Francesco Algarotti
Algarotti was the leading European art critic and theorist of the mid-18th century, an international celebrity and literary superstar. This portrait was made in 1745 at Venice, where Liotard had been sent by Maria Theresia of Austria and where Algarotti bought his most famous pastel, the Belle chocolatiere for the Elector of Saxony. It was Algarotti’s championing of that work that cemented Liotard…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- Algarotti, Francesco
Medium
- Bequeathed by Miss Marie-Anne Liotard, Amsterdam
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1745
- 1745
Place-Time
- second quarter 18th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6723
- SK-A-234
Extent
- height 42 cm
- width 32.5 cm
- weight 2.4 kg
Format
- parchment (animal material)
- Parchment
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collectie: pastels
Year
- 1745
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:14:08.877Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:35.168Z