https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=La_Tour%2C_Maurice-Quentin_de 2026-04-22T07:51:51Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.2 https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=La_Tour,_Maurice-Quentin_de&diff=1590&oldid=prev 2019-01-11T21:24:07Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:24, 11 January 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo and Mademoiselle Sallé (both also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo and Mademoiselle Sallé (both also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Zuylen, also known as the “Belle de Zuylen,” <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>&quot;Isabelle de Charriere&quot; of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching for an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Now in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founds a free school of paintings, gives large sums to maternity hospitals and, of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784, he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Zuylen, also known as the “Belle de Zuylen,” <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or </ins>&quot;Isabelle de Charriere&quot; of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching for an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Now in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founds a free school of paintings, gives large sums to maternity hospitals and, of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784, he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour succeeds in showing the sitters &#039;soul in their appearance.  One of the differences with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects &#039;eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models &#039;expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not enjoy the same esteem as oil but was so skilled that he was able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour succeeds in showing the sitters &#039;soul in their appearance.  One of the differences with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects &#039;eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models &#039;expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not enjoy the same esteem as oil but was so skilled that he was able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1414:rev-1590 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:34, 17 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de&#039;&#039;&#039; (1704-1788): French, Painter</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de&#039;&#039;&#039; (1704-1788): French, Painter</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Maurice-Quentin de Latour was born <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the 5th of </del>September in Saint-Quentin in Picardy, Northern France, third son to François de La Tour, trumpeter in the Duc de Maine’s regiment and later musician.  Maurice-Quentin <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">went to </del>school in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Saint-Quentin </del>but <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">spent </del>much of his time drawing and copying prints rather than studying.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Maurice-Quentin de Latour was born September <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5 </ins>in Saint-Quentin in Picardy, Northern France, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>third son to François de La Tour, trumpeter in the Duc de Maine’s regiment and later musician.  Maurice-Quentin <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">attends </ins>school in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his home town </ins>but <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">spends </ins>much of his time drawing and copying prints rather than studying.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1719, he goes to Paris and is taken as a student by the painter Claude Dupouch.  At 18 years of age, he meets a famous engraver, Nicolas Tardieu who helps him meet other painters.  Maurice-Quentin’s attempts to work as an assistant to established painters <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are each time met </del>with refusal until he makes the acquaintance of Jacques-Jean Spoëde, a Flemish artist who introduces him to the works of Rubens and Van Dyck.  It is unknown when La Tour leaves Spoëde’s studio but in 1723, he is already back in Saint-Quentin <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>has an affair with his cousin, Anne Bougier, who will <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">carry </del>his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">illegitimate </del>child, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">born dead.  That incident forces </del>him to leave his hometown <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>moves to Cambrai where representatives from the king of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meet </del>to end the Anglo-Spanish war.  La Tour <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has </del>his first success with the portrait of the Spanish delegate which favorably impressed the English delegation.  It is believed that he therefore receives an invitation to England.  Another explanation <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </del>his departure for London is that in Cambrai, he falls in love with a married woman who tricks him into coming to her house for a nightly rendezvous but the woman and her husband dupe La Tour and manage to let him hang into a basket outside her house between two floors.  Embarrassed and humiliated, he decides to leave for London.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1719, he goes to Paris and is taken <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </ins>as a student by the painter Claude Dupouch.  At 18 years of age, he meets a famous engraver, Nicolas Tardieu<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>who helps him meet other painters.  Maurice-Quentin’s attempts to work as an assistant to established painters <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">repeatedly meet </ins>with refusal until he makes the acquaintance of Jacques-Jean Spoëde, a Flemish artist who introduces him to the works of Rubens and Van Dyck.  It is unknown when La Tour leaves Spoëde’s studio but<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>in 1723, he is already back in Saint-Quentin <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where he </ins>has an affair with his cousin, Anne Bougier, who will <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bear </ins>his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">still-born </ins>child, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">circumstances which force </ins>him to leave his hometown<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  He </ins>moves to Cambrai where representatives from the king of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are meeting </ins>to end the Anglo-Spanish war.  La Tour <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finds </ins>his first success with the portrait of the Spanish delegate which favorably impressed the English delegation.  It is believed that he therefore receives an invitation to England.  Another explanation <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </ins>his departure for London is that<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, while </ins>in Cambrai, he falls in love with a married woman who tricks him into coming to her house for a nightly rendezvous but the woman and her husband dupe La Tour and manage to let him hang into a basket outside her house between two floors.  Embarrassed and humiliated, he decides to leave for London.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In England, he grows into a successful portraitist renowned for achieving very good <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">resemblance</del>.  He chooses rather pastel than oil because this medium does not require many sittings <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since </del>there is no need to wait for the canvass to dry.  In 1727, he is back in Paris and devotes much of his time to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perfect </del>his drawing ability.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In England, he grows into a successful portraitist renowned for achieving very good <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">likenesses</ins>.  He chooses rather pastel than oil because this medium does not require <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>many sittings <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </ins>there is no need to wait for the canvass to dry.  In 1727, he is back in Paris and devotes much of his time to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perfecting </ins>his drawing ability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">grants </del>him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">earns </ins>him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">time</del>, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only be </del>temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in his work</del>.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">She had been unsuccessfully </del>courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being one of them</del>.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fel’s becomes </del>the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degrades and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had been </del>he would suffer no <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interruption </del>during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, the draughtsman stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">day</ins>, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">prove </ins>temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </ins>judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </ins>it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unsuccessfully </ins>courted before by other artists, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including </ins>[[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]].  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fel would become </ins>the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degrades and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was that </ins>he would suffer no <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interruptions </ins>during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, the draughtsman stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo and Mademoiselle Sallé (both also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo and Mademoiselle Sallé (both also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Zuylen, also known as the “Belle de Zuylen,” and &quot;Isabelle de Charriere&quot; of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Already </del>in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">founded </del>a free school of paintings, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">give </del>large sums to maternity hospitals, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Zuylen, also known as the “Belle de Zuylen,” and &quot;Isabelle de Charriere&quot; of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </ins>an excellence that is beyond human skill.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Now </ins>in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">founds </ins>a free school of paintings, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gives </ins>large sums to maternity hospitals <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and</ins>, of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour succeeds in showing the soul <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of his sitters on </del>their appearance.  One of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difference </del>with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">‘eyes </del>do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">‘expression </del>and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">consideration than </del>oil <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had </del>but was so skilled that he was able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour succeeds in showing the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sitters &#039;</ins>soul <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>their appearance.  One of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">differences </ins>with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;eyes </ins>do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;expression </ins>and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enjoy </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">same esteem as </ins>oil but was so skilled that he was able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Further Reading:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Further Reading:</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1410:rev-1414 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:51, 13 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">degraded </del>and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, the draughtsman stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">degrades </ins>and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, the draughtsman stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo and Mademoiselle Sallé (both also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo and Mademoiselle Sallé (both also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1409:rev-1410 --> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=La_Tour,_Maurice-Quentin_de&diff=1409&oldid=prev 2017-03-13T02:10:43Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:10, 12 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, the draughtsman stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, the draughtsman stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo (also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and Mademoiselle Sallé </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both </ins>also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Charriere</del>, also known as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“la belle </del>de Zuylen,” of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Zuylen</ins>, also known as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the “Belle </ins>de Zuylen,” <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and &quot;Isabelle de Charriere&quot; </ins>of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour succeeds in showing the soul of his sitters on their appearance.  One of the difference with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects ‘eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models ‘expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not have the consideration than oil had but was so skilled that he was able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour succeeds in showing the soul of his sitters on their appearance.  One of the difference with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects ‘eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models ‘expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not have the consideration than oil had but was so skilled that he was able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1408:rev-1409 --> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=La_Tour,_Maurice-Quentin_de&diff=1408&oldid=prev 2017-03-13T01:59:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:59, 12 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make an appealing and renowned portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">attempts and </del>succeeds in showing the soul of his sitters on their appearance.  One of the difference with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects ‘eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models ‘expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not have the consideration than oil had but <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>so skilled that he <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour succeeds in showing the soul of his sitters on their appearance.  One of the difference with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects ‘eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models ‘expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not have the consideration than oil had but <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </ins>so skilled that he <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </ins>able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Further Reading:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Further Reading:</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1407:rev-1408 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:41, 12 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo (also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, he was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo (also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a famous </del>portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an appealing and renowned </ins>portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour attempts and succeeds in showing the soul of his sitters on their appearance.  One of the difference with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects ‘eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models ‘expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not have the consideration than oil had but is so skilled that he is able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Often regarded as one of the best portraitists of his time, La Tour attempts and succeeds in showing the soul of his sitters on their appearance.  One of the difference with other portraitists is that with La Tour, his subjects ‘eyes do not necessarily seem to watch outbound but often hold an expression that invite the public to watch inside them to understand the profundity of their charm and character. The light in the pastel along with the models ‘expression and diminutive smile propose a complicity that one accepts unintentionally.  La Tour did not bother to sign his works.  He knew that pastels did not have the consideration than oil had but is so skilled that he is able to prove that pastels could capture the large spectrum and diversity of the human heart through people’s face.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1406:rev-1407 --> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=La_Tour,_Maurice-Quentin_de&diff=1406&oldid=prev 2017-03-13T01:19:22Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:19, 12 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and painter </del>at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">La Tour </del>stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the draughtsman </ins>stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the draughtsman </del>was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo (also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famed people during Louis XV’s reign.  However, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he </ins>was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with many of the philosophes.  His portraits of [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo (also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]) are among his most charismatic ones.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make a famous portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make a famous portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1405:rev-1406 --> </table>

Toubiana https://enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php?title=La_Tour,_Maurice-Quentin_de&diff=1405&oldid=prev 2017-03-13T01:12:09Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:12, 12 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher and painter at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, La Tour stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher and painter at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, La Tour stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">famous </del>people during Louis XV’s reign.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>draughtsman was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Encyclopaedists such as </del>the philosophes [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]], [[Helvétius, Claude Adrien</del>]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who was </del>also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">famed </ins>people during Louis XV’s reign.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, the </ins>draughtsman was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many of </ins>the philosophes<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  His portraits of </ins>[[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) are among his most charismatic ones</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make a famous portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1766, he travels to Holland and visits Amsterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.  In Utrecht, he meets one of the most famous Dutch writer of the Enlightenment, Isabelle de Charriere, also known as “la belle de Zuylen,” of whom he will make a famous portrait.  Back in Paris, La Tour continues to paint and exhibits many pieces in the salons of 1769, 1771, and 1773.  In his later years, his production slows down and the artist is more preoccupied in retouching portraits that had been previously finished and even delivered to their owner.  La Tour feels he must make alterations because he cannot find his original inspiration.  He realizes that he is searching an excellence that is beyond human skill.  Already in his seventies, he becomes very involved in charity.  He founded a free school of paintings, give large sums to maternity hospitals, and of course does not forget his relatives, his friends and his faithful companion, Marie Fel.  La Tour seems to have lost touch with reality hoping to contribute to an impossible ambition where human kind would be linked through love and charity.  On June 20, 1784 he leaves Marie Fel and returns to his native Saint-Quentin where most inhabitants are out greeting him and thanking him for his generosity.  Later on, he loses his mind and believing he is one of the richest man on earth want to give everyone big chunk of his fortune.  He dies on 17 February 1788.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1404:rev-1405 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:59, 12 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;Portrait of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher and painter at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]]being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, La Tour stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher and painter at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]] being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, La Tour stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famous people during Louis XV’s reign.  The draughtsman was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with the Encyclopaedists such as the philosophes [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], [[Helvétius, Claude Adrien]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo who was also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1752, he receives a royal pension that ensures his old days.  La Tour’s works can be regarded as a collection of the most important and famous people during Louis XV’s reign.  The draughtsman was very sensitive to the hardship and suffering of the masses and developed friendship with the Encyclopaedists such as the philosophes [[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de]], [[Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]], [[Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’]], [[Helvétius, Claude Adrien]], and theater’ and opera’s idols like La Camargo who was also painted by [[Lancret, Nicolas]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1401:rev-1404 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:36, 12 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In England, he grows into a successful portraitist renowned for achieving very good resemblance.  He chooses rather pastel than oil because this medium does not require many sittings since there is no need to wait for the canvass to dry.  In 1727, he is back in Paris and devotes much of his time to perfect his drawing ability.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In England, he grows into a successful portraitist renowned for achieving very good resemblance.  He chooses rather pastel than oil because this medium does not require many sittings since there is no need to wait for the canvass to dry.  In 1727, he is back in Paris and devotes much of his time to perfect his drawing ability.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">portrait </del>of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His first recognized major work takes place in 1737 with his self-portrait, &#039;&#039;L’Homme qui rit&#039;&#039;, with the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  He, then, sends a second painting to the judges, a &#039;&#039;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Portrait </ins>of Mme Boucher,&#039;&#039; which grants him the position of Associate at the Academy.  From 1738, the artist’s recognition is ensured with successful portraits such as the ones of Mademoiselle de la Boissière and Jean Restout.  His exceptional knowledge of color and texture bring him much success.  The public appreciates the depth and intimacy captured in the human face by the new artist en vogue.  In addition to the likeness of his portraits, La Tour strives to catch the touch, vitality and personality that differentiate each of his sitters in life.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>    </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher and painter at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]]being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, La Tour stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the salon of 1739, two of his drawings consecrate him as the portraitist of his time, &#039;&#039;Father Fiacre&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Claude Dupouch&#039;&#039; (his former teacher and painter at the Academy of Saint Luc).  He is then in demand with the nobles and the influential people of Paris.  A year later, he is portraying Louis XV and his family.  However, in spite of his fame, he worries about losing his celebrity and his income specifically because he realizes that his popularity might only be temporary and also because many critics believe pastel inferior to oil.  In 1741, to prove his detractors wrong, he undertakes on a very large scale, a portrait of the judge, &#039;&#039;President de Rieux&#039;&#039;, 74” high on 56” wide.  The work is considered a masterpiece because of its precision, likeness and realism, it matches any oil work using simple colorful pastels.  In the salon of 1745, more pastels of Louis XV, the dauphin and many other  prominent aristocrats and state men grant him a personal studio in the Louvre only reserved for the best artists of the period.  The powerful nobles of Europe turn to him to have their portrait done and critics recognize that he can seize the physiognomy but also the character of his sitters in his work.  One of his gifts resides in his faculty to capture the psychology of his models through the expression he puts in their eyes.  He is then promoted Premier Painter to the king.  He also paints the great military men of France, the most famous being the ones for the Marshal of Saxe for whom he made several portraits.  He also draws one of the most famous woman of France, Louis XV’s mistress, [[Pompadour, Marquise de]], who holds in her hands much of France’s politics.  In 1750, he meets Marie Fel, an opera singer nine years younger than he.  She had been unsuccessfully courted before by other artists, [[Grimm, Baron Friedrich Melchior von]]being one of them.  Fel’s becomes the pastellist’s devoted companion until the latter’s health degraded and must return to his native Saint-Quentin before his death.  His passion for his art is well illustrated by a significant episode while making Mme de Pompadour’s portrait.  One of his conditions had been he would suffer no interruption during the sitting.  However, when the king dares enter the room, La Tour stops his work for the day and exits the room impatiently reminding Mme de Pompadour in front of the king his prerequisite.  La Tour was known to be direct even with the highest political leaders like the king himself.   </div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key w_enlightenment_revolution_org:diff::1.12:old-1400:rev-1401 --> </table>

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