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Self-Portrait Painting ID:: 26909
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Self-Portrait mk52
c.1735
Pastel on paper
61.5x50.5cm
Uffizi,Florence
mk52
c.1735
Pastel_on_paper
61.5x50.5cm
Uffizi,Florence
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Self-Portrait Wearing a Jobot Painting ID:: 26911
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Self-Portrait Wearing a Jobot mk52
c.1751
Pastel on paper
64x53cm
Musee de Picardie,Amiens
mk52
c.1751
Pastel_on_paper
64x53cm
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Henry Dawkins Painting ID:: 43249
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Henry Dawkins mk171
circa 1750
Pastel on paper,mounted on canvs
66.7x53.3cm
mk171
circa_1750
Pastel_on_paper,mounted_on_canvs
66.7x53.3cm
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Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene Painting ID:: 84082
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Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene early 1630s
cyf early_1630s
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Maurice quentin de la tour
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1704-88
French pastellist. He was one of the greatest pastellists of the 18th century, an equal of Jean-Sim?on Chardin and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau. Unlike them, however, he painted no works in oils. Reacting against the stately portraits of preceding generations and against the mythological portraits of many of his contemporaries, La Tour returned to a more realistic and sober style of work. The fundamental quality of his art lies in his ability to suggest the temperament and psychology of his subjects by means of their facial expression, and thereby to translate their fugitive emotions on to paper: 'I penetrate into the depths of my subjects without their knowing it, and capture them whole', as he himself put it. His considerable success led to commissions from the royal family, the court, the rich bourgeoisie and from literary, artistic and theatrical circles. |
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