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Since the 18th century, the works of Maurice Quentin de la Tour have been highly prized by connoisseurs of Old Master painting and largely ignored by everyone else. Part of the reason for his ...

29.5 x 20.5 cm. (11.6 x 8.1 in.) M. Tourneux, G. Briere et Vitry, Bulletin de la Société de L'Historie de l'Art Français, 1908, p. 231; A. Besnard & G. Wildenstein ...

Oil on canvas attributed to Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) Perspective by Andrew Janiak Two years ago, philosophy professors Andrew Janiak of Duke ...

When the French artist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour exhibited his monumental portrait of the magistrate and banking heir Gabriel Bernard de Rieux at the Paris Salon of 1741, he clearly intended the ...

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, between 1748 and 1755, currently at the Louvre Museum. Public Domain Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the ...

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery's pastel portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour has become an iconic image of the prince. But research by London-based art dealer Bendor Grosvenor suggests it ...

80.6 x 65.4 cm. (31.7 x 25.7 in.) Thence by descent to his nephew Yves-Joseph-Charles Pommyer de Rougemont (1733-1808); Thence by descent to his daughter, Madame Louis Theurier, née Geneviève Pommyer ...

Nationalmuseum has acquired pastel portraits by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Henry-Pierre Danloux and Joseph Boze, three artists active during the golden age of pastel in 18th-century France.