George Keppel, Earl of Albemarle (1724–1772)
- Pastel on paper
- 25 ¾ × 21 inches · 654 × 533 mm
- Signed and inscribed on the original backboard in Liotard’s hand: ‘Milord Comte d’Albermarle [sic] / peint en crayon au pastel 1768 par J.E. Liotard / on prie de ne point toucher a la peinture / ny aucun coup de Marteau.’
Drawn 1768
Collections
- General John Hale (1728-1806), a gift from the sitter;
- And by descent to 1987;
- W. Drummond to 2016.
Literature
- Marcel Rothlisberger, ‘Des inédits de Liotard’, L’oeil, June 1988, pp.50-55;
- Marcel Rothlisberger & Renée Loche, Liotard: Catalogue sources et correspondence, Antwerp, 2008, I pp.571-572, cat. no. 432, II repr. Pl. 625;
- Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, pp.337-8.
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