Jean-Etienne Liotard bed "Chocolate".
One of the most interesting works in the collection of Old Masters Gallery in Dresden.
I like it a lot ..
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The legend about the creation of this painting is as follows: in 1745 an Austrian aristocrat Prince Ditrihshtayn (Dietrichstein) went to the Viennese coffeehouse, to try a new chocolate drink, about which so much went on talking at this time. His waitress was Baltauf Anna (Anna Baltauf), the daughter of an impoverished nobleman Melchior Baltaufa. The prince was conquered by her charm, and despite the objections of his family, he took the girl to wife. "Chocolate" became the wedding gift for the new princess, ordered a newlywed fashionable Swiss artist Liotard. Portraitist painted bride dressed waitresses XVIII century, immortalized love at first sight.
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J. E. Lyotard "Chocolate", approx. 1743-45
La Belle Chocolatière, Das Schokoladenmädchen
parchment paper, pastel. 82.5 × 52.5 cm cm
Gallery of Old Masters, Dresden
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