Portrait of a Man

Artist Unknown

Formerly attributed to Jean Etienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702 - 1789)

CultureGerman

Dateca. 1710

MediumWatercolor and gouache on vellum; White metal case with cast beading

DimensionsSight: 1 7/16 × 1 1/8 inches (3.65 × 2.86 cm)
Framed: 1 3/4 × 1 3/8 inches (4.45 × 3.49 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.

Object numberF58-60/3

InscribedNone

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with a powdered wig wearing a blue coat before a sky background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 251, as Unknown Man.

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 265.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 251, p. 82, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Marcel Rœthlisberger and Renée Loche, Liotard: Catalogue, Sources et Correspondance (Doornspijk, The Netherlands: Davaco, 2008), 1:691, as Homme.

Blythe Sobol, “Unknown, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1710,” catalogue entry in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.2238.

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