Its Old Master collection has been famous for its quality since the mid 18th century. It is by some distance, however, the most important.
The gallery is one of 15 museums spread across eight buildings that fall under the city’s Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden umbrella. These glowing hieroglyphs are the work of Austrian artist Peter Baldinger, and not only proclaim what lies within but also that the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister und Skulpturensammlung bis 1800 – to give the gallery its full title – has completed its renovations. Sitting atop Gottfried Semper’s neo-Renaissance facade, and outlined in lilac neon light tubes, are the two insouciant cherubs from Raphael’s Sistine Madonna. Characteristic works from other creative periods complete the overview of Liotard's oeuvre.Should a visitor to the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden be in any doubt as to the museum’s star attraction, they need only look up.
Chocolate itself, always associated with pleasure, contributes further to the particular charm. In its sober and precise observation it reflects the art of the Enlightenment as well as anticipating the realism of the nineteenth century. The Chocolate Girl shows a simple, unknown domestic servant, until then a rarely chosen subject. Even during Liotard's life (1702 - 1789), his pastel painting was highly valued, as the description by the most famous pastel artist Rosalba Carriera as "the most beautiful pastel" demonstrates. The painting had a tremendous effect in those days, and still does so today. It also explains the art of pastel painting, in which this enchanting work has been executed. This richly illustrated volume leads the reader through the age in which it was created during the French-inspired Rococo and into the Vienna of Empress Maria Theresia, where the work was painted.
The Chocolate Girl is one of the most famous works by the Swiss artist Jean-Etienne Liotard.
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