Madame Jean Tronchin
by LIOTARD, Étienne, Pastel on vellum, 63 x 50 cm
In an annotation on the verso, the painter gave the identity of the represented Protestant lady: “Anne Molesnes, born in Lyon, 9 August 1684 baptised in the reformed church of St Romain. Wife of Jean Tronchin, former conseiller d’�tat, painted by Mr Lean �tienne Liotard in Geneva in the month of August 1758 at the age of seventy-four.”