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Portrait of Maria Adelaide of France in Turkish-style clothes
Jean-Étienne Liotard1753
Uffizi Gallery
Florence, Italy
This painting entered the Uffizi collection in 1932. An inscription on the back of the painting allows us to identify the subject as Maria Adelaide, daughter of Louis XV and sister of Luisa Elisabetta, Duchess of Parma. Liotard, a portrait artist of Swiss origin but trained in France, lived in Constantinople and in Vienna. He often represented his subjects in exotic costumes.
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- Title: Portrait of Maria Adelaide of France in Turkish-style clothes
- Creator: Jean Etienne Lìotard Lìotard
- Creator Death Place: Geneva (Switzerland)
- Creator Birth Place: Geneva (Switzerland)
- Date Created: 1753
- Style: Rococo/Court Portrait
- Provenance: Parma
- Physical Dimensions: w560 x h500 mm
- Original Title: Ritratto di Maria Adelaide di Francia vestita alla turca
- Type: painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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