Jean-Étienne Liotard at the Frick Collection

There are so many artists I have never heard of, and whose work I would never have seen if not for reviews in the New York Times and other places.

I found out about the Jean-Étienne Liotard exhibit at the Frick Collection through an article, Jean-Étienne Liotard, the Unrelenting Eye of the Enlightenment, in the NYT from 2006. Written by Holland Cotter, it is a pleasure to read - he likes the art, he likes the artist, and he isn't afraid to say so.

The web exhibit at the Frick has quite a bit of detail about the paintings shown but the images themselves aren't very big.

To see how Liotard paints portraits, visit the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, which has a good collection of Liotard's works, especially pastels - the captions are in Dutch, but the magnification is excellent as long as you click the text link "Bekijk het object extra groot". You will have to search to find Liotard's pastels - this link may work. The text here is in Dutch, but other parts of the site are in English.