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Maurice Quentin de La Tour
1704–1788 · French
- Born
- 1704 · Saint-Quentin
- Died
- 1788 · Saint-Quentin
15 works in the Collect24 Registry
Every work carries a permanent Collect24 Art ID, the way a book has an ISBN.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour was a French painter who specialized in portrait painting using pastels. His famous subjects included Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XV, and Madame de Pompadour.
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis kɑ̃tɛ̃ də la tuʁ]; 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.
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Registered works
15
In museum collections
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Selected from 15 works by Maurice Quentin de La Tour in the Collect24 Registry.
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux, 1739–1741
Pastel and gouache, on blue paper, mounted on canvas
200.7 × 149.9 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-210142
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Portrait of Louis de Silvestre, about 1753
Black and white chalk and pastel, on blue paper (now discolored)
32.5 × 21.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-194265
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Jacques Dumont, called Le Romain, c. 1742
black and white chalk with pastel
30.8 × 20.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-191551
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Prince Henry Benedict Clement Stuart, 1725 - 1807. Cardinal York, 1746
paper
61 × 51 cm
National Galleries Scotland
C24-460613
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Bildnis eines sitzenden Abbé, 1729
210 × 150.5 cm
Munich Central Collecting Point
C24-400571
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Portrait of a Man, 1700s
pastel on gray paper
57 × 46 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-226795
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Marie-Sophie de Courcillon, Duchesse de Pecquigny, Princesse de Rohan, 1740
61 × 49.7 cm
Nationalmuseum
C24-188054
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Marie-Sophie de Courcillon, Duchesse de Pecquigny, Princesse de Rohan (1713-1756)
Nationalmuseum Sweden
C24-174811
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755), ca. 1750
Pastel and gouache on blue paper, laid down on canvas
64.5 × 54 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-140211
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Portrait présumé du baron Charles-François, comte de Sassenage, dit marquis de Sassenage, Vers 1750
Pastel , Papier
Musée Cognacq-Jay
C24-876063
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Portrait d'homme au gilet bleu, Vers 1750
Pastel , Papier
Musée Cognacq-Jay
C24-845137
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Portrait de Charles-Louis-Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684-1761), maréchal de France, Après 1748
Peinture à l'huile , Toile (matériau)
Musée Carnavalet
C24-147113
Museums and collections
Where works by Maurice Quentin de La Tour are registered
- Musée Cognacq-Jay
Paris, France
3 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
2 works
- J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
2 works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
2 works
- Munich Central Collecting Point
allied-occupied Germany
1 work
- Musée Carnavalet
Paris, France
1 work
- Musée de la Vie romantique
Paris, France
1 work
- National Galleries Scotland
United Kingdom
1 work
- Nationalmuseum
Sweden
1 work
- Nationalmuseum Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
1 work
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