Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard is central to this selection of graphic treasures: prints, drawings, pastel portraits and rare illustrated books. The presentation highlights Liotard’s cosmopolitan practice — an itinerant career across Europe and the Ottoman Empire — and examines how social status shaped portrait execution. Through pastels and works on paper, it contrasts European and Ottoman visual codes, considers unidentified sitters, and reveals how technique and medium negotiate identity, status and cultural exchange in eighteenth-century portraiture.
