Georges De La Tour

French Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1652
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Adoration of the Shepherds
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38535
Boy Blowing at Lamp
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38536
Cheater with the Ace of Diamond
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38537
Christ in the Carpenters Shop
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38538
Christ in the Carpenters Shop detail
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38539
Fortune Teller
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38540
Hurdy Gurdy Player with a Ribbon
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38541
Job Mocked by his Wife
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38542
Magdalen of Night Light
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38543
Penitent St Jerome
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38544
Quarrelling Musicians
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38545
Saint Jerome Reading
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38546
St Irene Removing Arrows from St Sebastians Leg
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38547
St James the Minor
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38548
St Sebastien Attended by St Irene
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38549
St Thomas
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38550
The Dream of St Joseph
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38551
The Hurdy gurdy Player
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38552
The New born
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38553
The New born detail
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38554
The Payment of Dues
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38555
The Penitent Magdalen
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38556
The Porridge Eaters
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38557
The Repentant Magdalen
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38558
Woman Catching Fleas
Georges De La Tour
Item ID:38559
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Biography
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Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593, Vic-sur-Seille, Moselle - January 30, 1652, Luneville) was a painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which became part of France the year before his death. He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight, and after centuries of posthumous obscurity became one of the most highly regarded of French 17th century artists in the 20th century. Georges de La Tour was born in the town of Vic-sur-Seille in the Diocese of Metz, technically part of the Holy Roman Empire, but controlled by France after 1552. Baptism documentation reveal that he was the son of Jean de La Tour, a baker and Sybille de La Tour, née Molian. It has been suggested that Sybille came from a partly noble family. His parents had seven children in all, with Georges being the second-born. La Tour's educational background remains somewhat unclear, but it is assumed that he travelled either to Italy or the Netherlands early in his career. His paintings reflect the Baroque naturalism of Caravaggio, but this probably reached him through the Dutch Caravaggisti of the Utrecht School and other Northern (French and Dutch) contemporaries. In particular, La Tour is often compared to the Dutch painter Hendrick Terbrugghen. In 1617 he married Diane Le Nerf, from a minor noble family, and in 1620 he established his studio in her quiet provincial home-town of Lunéville, part of the independent Duchy of Lorraine which was absorbed into France, during his lifetime, in 1641. He painted mainly religious and some genre scenes. He was given the title "Painter to the King" (of France) in 1638, and he also worked for the Dukes of Lorraine in 1623–4, but the local bourgeoisie provided his main market, and he achieved a certain affluence. He is not recorded in Lunéville in 1639–42, and may have travelled again; Anthony Blunt detected the influence of Gerrit van Honthorst in his paintings after this point. He was involved in a Franciscan-led religious revival in Lorraine, and over the course of his career he moved to painting almost entirely religious subjects, but in treatments with influence from genre painting. Georges de la Tour and his family died in 1652 in an epidemic in Lunéville. His son Étienne (born 1621) was his pupil.
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