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Georges de La Tour The Penitent Magdalen oil painting


The Penitent Magdalen
Painting ID::  2353 		Artist: Georges de La Tour
Painting: The Penitent Magdalen
Introduction: 1640 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges de La Tour The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs oil painting


The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
Painting ID::  2354 		Artist: Georges de La Tour
Painting: The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
Introduction: c1647 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth 38-1/2 x 61-1/2 in. (97.8 x 156.2 cm )
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges de La Tour The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds oil painting


The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
Painting ID::  2355 		Artist: Georges de La Tour
Painting: The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
Introduction: c1647 Musee du Louvre, Paris 41.75" x 57.5"
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges de La Tour The Fortune Teller oil painting


The Fortune Teller
Painting ID::  2356 		Artist: Georges de La Tour
Painting: The Fortune Teller
Introduction: 1632-35 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 102 x 123.5cm / 40.15" x48.62"
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges de La Tour Joseph the Carpenter oil painting


Joseph the Carpenter
Painting ID::  2357 		Artist: Georges de La Tour
Painting: Joseph the Carpenter
Introduction: 1645 Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     1593-1652 French Georges de La Tour Galleries His early work shows influences from Caravaggio, probably via his Dutch followers, and the genre scenes of cheats??as in The Fortune Teller ??and fighting beggars clearly derive from the Dutch Caravaggisti, and probably also his fellow-Lorrainer, Jacques Bellange. These are believed to date from relatively early in his career. La Tour is best known for the nocturnal light effects which he developed much further than his artistic predecessors had done, and transferred their use in the genre subjects in the paintings of the Dutch Caravaggisti to religious painting in his. Unlike Caravaggio his religious paintings lack dramatic effects. He painted these in a second phase of his style, perhaps beginning in the 1640s, using chiaroscuro, careful geometrical compositions, and very simplified painting of forms. His work moves during his career towards greater simplicity and stillness ?? taking from Caravaggio very different qualities than Jusepe de Ribera and his Tenebrist followers did. He often painted several variations on the same subjects, and his surviving output is relatively small. His son Etienne was his pupil, and distinguishing between their work in versions of La Tour's compositions is difficult. The version of the Education of the Virgin, in the Frick Collection in New York is an example, as the Museum itself admits. Another group of paintings (example left), of great skill but claimed to be different in style to those of de La Tour, have been attributed to an unknown "Hurdy-gurdy Master". All show older male figures (one group in Malibu includes a female), mostly solitary, either beggars or saints. After his death in 1652, La Tour's work was largely forgotten until rediscovered by Hermann Voss, a German scholar, in 1915. In 1935 an exhibition in Paris began the revival in interest among a wider public. In the twentieth century a number of his works were identified once more, and forgers tried to help meet the new demand; many aspects of his œuvre remain controversial among art historians. . Related Artists to Georges de La Tour : | MASSYS, Quentin | David Teniers the Younger | Gottlieb Schick | Jacob Claesz van Utrecht | Newman, Willie Betty |

 

 

 
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