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.