Jean-Etienne Liotard (2)

Our Liotard exhibition has arrived from Edinburgh.   It looks wonderful in the Sackler galleries with their good height and generous proportions, enhanced by clever but low-key design by Eric Pearson with minimal red banding in the first gallery to give a sense that they are works for private rather than public space.   The exhibition gives a particularly good view of the aristocracy in the late 1730s, grand tourists in Rome and Constantinople, cultivated and louche, members of the Society of Dilettanti (Viscount Duncannon was a founder member) and of the Hellfire Club (Simon Luttrell founded the Dublin Hellfire Club).   Viscount Mountstuart stayed in Geneva with the Pictet family, whose bank are sponsoring the exhibition.

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2 thoughts on “Jean-Etienne Liotard (2)

  1. joan's avatar pbmum says:

    The poster for this exhibition is a lovely addition to current tube journeys. Not an exhibition I would generally think of going to but the poster – and the promise of beautiful depictions of textiles – is luring me in!

    Joan

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