Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French painter who worked primarily with pastels in the Rococo style. Among his...
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French officer under Napoleon LaTour, stage name of American artist William "Bud" LaTour Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), French Rococo portraitist...
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Après moi, le déluge (category Madame de Pompadour)
downcast expression while he was posing for the artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour inspired Madame de Pompadour to say: "Il ne faut point s'affliger; vous...
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collection of Maurice Quentin de La Tour's pastels Academic Society, archaeologic museum Société Académique de Saint-Quentin The Gare de Saint-Quentin is the...
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French franc (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
1983) 50 francs (€7.62): Antoine de Saint-Exupéry— blue (introduced 20 October 1993, replacing Maurice Quentin de la Tour) 100 francs (€15.24): Paul Cézanne...
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important medium for artists such as Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Maurice Quentin de La Tour (who never painted in oils), and Rosalba Carriera. The pastel...
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artists patronized by the King included Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Maurice Quentin de la Tour, Jean Marc Nattier, and the sculptor Edme Bouchardon. Bouchardon...
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Nain brothers and Maurice Quentin de La Tour. He also had a brief affair in 1851 with Eveline Hańska, the widow of his friend Honoré de Balzac. He edited...
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early age, she was raised by relatives. She studied art under Maurice Quentin de La Tour and then of Joseph-Marie Vien. The teachings of Vien, in particular...
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Paris in 1760, he trained as the only student of the pastelist Maurice Quentin de La Tour, who specialized in portraiture. Jean-Baptiste Greuze was an important...
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was a French salon-holder and philosopher. A portrait of her by Maurice Quentin de La Tour with the title "Mlle Ferrand Meditating on Newton" is held in...
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pastel portrait was executed by Maurice-(Quentin) de La Tour in 1751. He was the husband of Françoise-(Elisabeth) de Jarente (the niece of the bishop...
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Hague (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)". Charrière, de, Isabelle; Zuylen, de, Belle; Abbé de la Tour. "Isabelle de Charrière - Wikisource". fr.wikisource.org....
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into tapestries and popular engravings; the portrait artists Maurice Quentin de la Tour and Jean-Marc Nattier, who made portraits for the royal family...
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Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (redirect from Magdaleine Pinceloup de la Grange)
pastel portrait, Maurice Quentin de La Tour. In the Salon of 1750, Perronneau exhibited his pastel portrait of Maurice Quentin de la Tour, but found to his...
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Lepoittevin Jacob Jordaens Joan Miró Francis Picabia Pablo Picasso Maurice Quentin de La Tour Alfred-Georges Regner, painter engraver Andrea Schiavone Hyacinthe...
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with five Flemish tapestries and a portrait attributed to Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. In the Library are hung portraits by Jean Clouet and Hyacinthe Rigaud...
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Blanc's portrait, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, is at Saint-Quentin. Élégies de Mr. L*. B*., avec un Discours sur ce genre de poésie et quelques autres...
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competitively in his salon. Voltaire was obliged to his generosity, and Maurice Quentin de La Tour and Carle van Loo both painted his portrait. Marmontel recalled...
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three Van Loo (Jean-Baptiste, Louis-Michel, and Charles-André), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, François Lemoyne, Elisabeth Vigée Le...
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Sexuality of Frederick the Great (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
anonymous writing “Vie privée du roi de Prusse” or “Idée de la personne, de la manière de vivre et de la cour du roi de Prusse Frederic II.” was published...
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Jean-Siméon Chardin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Hubert Robert, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo...
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Décès de Maurice Quentin". Lequipe.fr. 2013-04-20. Retrieved 2013-04-25. Maurice Quentin at Cycling Archives Official Tour de France results for Maurice Quentin...
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OCLC 45994169. Portrait of Louis de Silvestre by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704 - 1788) (J. Paul Getty Museum) Louis de Silvestre "le jeune" (1675-1760)...
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Walpole printed his version of the dispute; Boswell attacked Walpole; Mme. de La Tour's Precis sur M. Rousseau called Hume a traitor; Voltaire sent him additional...
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portraits of the French royal family painted by Jean-Marc Nattier, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Louis-Michel Van Loo, Alexander Roslin or Joseph Siffred Duplessis...
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Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, who in 1829 published the paper titled Du Calcul de l'Effet des Machines outlining the mathematics of kinetic energy. William...
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Freese, eds., Postmodernism and American Literature. Gardner, Helen, Horst De la Croix, Richard G. Tansey, and Diane Kirkpatrick. Gardner's Art Through the...
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Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Charles Edward Stuart by Maurice Quentin de La Tour was in fact a portrait of Charles' brother Henry Benedict Stuart...
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it that Madame de Pompadour told her "With such talents, you could become a Princess". She was painted by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and left her Souvenirs...
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