La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de
- La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de
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▪ French artist
also spelled Maurice Quentin de Latour
born Sept. 5, 1704, Saint-Quentin, France
died Feb. 17, 1788, Saint-Quentin
pastelist whose animated and sharply characterized portraits made him one of the most successful and imitated portraitists of 18th-century France.
Early in his youth La Tour went to Paris,
where he entered the studio of the Flemish painter Jacques Spoede.
He then went to Reims,
Cambrai (
1724),
and England (
c. 1725),
returning to Paris to resume his studies in about 1727.
In 1737 La Tour exhibited the first of a splendid series of 150 portraits that formed one of the glories of the Salon for the next 37 years.
He was able to endow his sitters with a distinctive air of charm and intelligence,
and he excelled at capturing the delicate play of facial features.
Among his subjects were the writers Jean-
Jacques Rousseau (
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques)
and Voltaire,
the painter Joseph Vernet (
Vernet, Joseph),
and the philosopher Jean Le Rond d'
Alembert (
Alembert,
Jean Le Rond d'),
as well as Louis XV and his mistress,
Mme de Pompadour (
Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de),
of whom he did a life-
size portrait (
1756).
In 1746 he was received into the Academy and in 1751 was promoted to councillor.
La Tour was made portraitist to the king in 1750,
a position he held until 1773.
La Tour retired at age 80 to Saint-
Quentin.
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Universalium.
2010.
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