SKD | Old Masters Picture Gallery
Royal collection of Old Master paintings, from Raphael's Madonna to Liotard's famed Chocolate Girl.
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This guide to the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden sets aside the saints and goddesses for a single pastel of a maid on her morning round, made by Jean-Étienne Liotard in the seventeen forties. It looks closely at what sits on her tray, what eighteenth-century drinking chocolate cost and who got to drink it, and how chocolate makers on two continents later claimed her. Best heard standing close to the Chocolate Girl herself.
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