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Jean-Étienne Liotard

1702 - 1789

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Jean-Étienne Liotard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃n‿etjɛn ljɔtaʁ]; 22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Genevan painter, art connoisseur and dealer. He is best known for his detailed, strikingly naturalistic portraits in pastel, and for the works from his stay in Turkey. A Huguenot of French origin and citizen of the Republic of Geneva, he was born and died in Geneva, but spent most of his career in stays in the capitals of Europe, where his portraits were much in demand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Étienne Liotard has received more than 205,131 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jean-Étienne Liotard is the 407th most popular painter (up from 420th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 117th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Over the past year Jean-Étienne Liotard has had the most page views in the with 26,040 views, followed by French (7,615), and German (7,497). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (154.72%), Franco-Provençal (69.90%), and Esperanto (58.49%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 407 out of 2,023. Before him are Eva Gonzalès, Asger Jorn, Tom of Finland, Andrea Solari, Joseph Kosuth, and John Bauer. After him are Vasily Perov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Pietro Cavallini, Marcantonio Raimondi, and Carlo Dolci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1702, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 4. Before him are Anne Bonny, Thomas Bayes, and Emperor Nakamikado. After him are Maria Clementina Sobieska, Legall de Kermeur, Muhammad Shah, Sava Petrović, Francesco Zuccarelli, Jacques Aved, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and William Fermor. Among people deceased in 1789, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 7. Before him are Abdul Hamid I, Baron d'Holbach, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Claude Joseph Vernet, and Ethan Allen. After him are Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Paolo Renier, and Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 114 out of 1,015. Before him are Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Jost Bürgi (1552), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), and César Ritz (1850). After him are Carla Del Ponte (1947), Gottfried Keller (1819), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jakob Steiner (1796), Jacques Dubochet (1942), and Charles Bonnet (1720).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Jean-Étienne Liotard ranks 10. Before him are Johannes Itten (1888), Henry Fuseli (1741), H. R. Giger (1940), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), and Albert Anker (1831). After him are Matthäus Merian (1593), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Jost Amman (1539), Charles Gleyre (1806), Théophile Steinlen (1859), and Eugène Grasset (1845).

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