Maurice Quentin de La Tour

1704–1788 · France · Rococo

Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French painter who specialised in portrait painting using pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XV, and Madame de Pompadour. Wikipedia

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“Portrait of Louis XV”, 1748 — Louvre
“Marie Josèphe of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731–1767)”, 1749 — Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
“Préparation for a Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774)”, 1745 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Maurice, Comte de Saxe, Marshal of France”, 1748 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Self-portrait with frill”, 1750 — Musée de Picardie
“Portrait of Pierre-Louis Laideguive”, 1761 — Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
“Madame Du Châtelet at her Desk”
“Portrait of Madame de Rieux in Ball-Dress Holding a Mask”, 1742 — Musée Cognacq-Jay
“Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux”, 1739–1741 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755)”, 1750 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Portrait of Philibert Orry (1689-1747)”, 1737 — Louvre
“Porträt des Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760), französischer Maler”, 1753 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony (1739-1812)”, 1763 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Mlle Ferrand Meditating on Newton”, 1753 — Bavarian State Painting Collections
“Marie Josèphe of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731–1767)”, 1756 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Marie Josèphe of Saxony with her son the Duke of Burgundy.”, 1761 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Self-portrait with lace jabot”, 1750 — Musée Cognacq-Jay
“Portrait of Louis de Silvestre”, 1753 — Getty Center
“The Abbé Jean-Jacques Huber Reading (1699 –1747)”, 1742 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Charles Parrocel (1688–1752), Maler” — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711–1772), French violinist and composer” — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772), French writer and historian” — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Marie Josèphe of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731–1767)”, 1740s — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Jean Monnet”, 1756 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765)”, 1761 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1735–1782)”, 1762 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Antoine-Gaspard Grimod de La Reynière (1690–1756), ferme générale”, 1751 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Claude Dupouch”, 1739 — National Gallery of Art
“Portrait of the engraver Schmidt”, 1760s — Demidov collection
“Marie-Sophie de Courcillon, Duchesse de Pecquigny, Princesse de Rohan”, 1738–1742 — Nationalmuseum
“Portrait of Marc-René, marquis de Voyer d'Argenson (1722–1782)”, 1753 — Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
“Prince Henry Benedict Clement Stuart, 1725 - 1807. Cardinal York”, 1746 — National Galleries of Scotland
“Portrait de la Maréchale de Belle-Isle”
“Portrait of Mademoiselle Sallé” — Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
“Portrait de Mme Rouillé de l'Estang”, 1738 — Frick Collection

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