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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    1752 Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1748 – 1755 François Boucher Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour...
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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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    ISBN 9781847884633. "La Rome protestante face aux exilés de la foi". Le Temps (in French). 13 July 2010.; Le Refuge protestant urbain au temps de la révocation de l'Édit...
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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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    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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    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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    contre Goezman 1775 – La Lettre modérée sur la chute et la critique du "Barbier de Sérville" 1778 – La Folle journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro, comedy, premiered...
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  • (1702–1789), painter François Boucher (1703–1770), painter, engraver Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), painter Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704–1778), painter...
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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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    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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    (1699–1789) Joseph Aved (1702–1766) François Boucher (1703–1770) Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788) Louis Michel van Loo (1707–1771) Jérôme-François Chantereau...
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    history paintings, and Maurice Quentin de La Tour and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun were highly accomplished portrait painters. La Tour specialized in pastel...
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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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