Maurice Quentin de La Tour
(1704–1788) fransk pastellist
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (France, 1704–1788) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Maurice Quentin de La Tour belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour was born in Saint-Quentin and died in Saint-Quentin. The teachers included Jean Restout and Claude Dupouch. Maurice Quentin de La Tour worked in Paris. Wikidata associates Maurice Quentin de La Tour with Rococo. The students included Marie-Suzanne Giroust and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.
The best-known works include ‘Portrait of Voltaire’ and ‘Portrait of Pierre-Louis Laideguive’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and pastel artwork. The catalogue has 36 works by Maurice Quentin de La Tour with free images. The dated works span the years 1737–1800. Works by Maurice Quentin de La Tour are held by several collections, among them Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, Dresdens nationella konstsamlingar, and musée Cognacq-Jay. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Corrado Giaquinto, François Boucher, Samuel Scott, Johann Georg Platzer, and Francesco Queirolo.