Georges de La Tour
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.
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Georges de La Tour St Sebastian tended by St Irene oil painting


St Sebastian tended by St Irene
St Sebastian tended by St Irene
Painting ID::  59538 		Georges de La Tour
St Sebastian tended by St Irene
St Sebastian tended by St Irene
   
   
     
Georges de La Tour The Penitent Magdalene, Metropolitan oil painting


The Penitent Magdalene, Metropolitan
The Penitent Magdalene, Metropolitan
Painting ID::  59539 		Georges de La Tour
The Penitent Magdalene, Metropolitan
The Penitent Magdalene, Metropolitan
   
   
     
Georges de La Tour The cheat with the ace of diamonds oil painting


The cheat with the ace of diamonds
The cheat with the ace of diamonds, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Another version is in the Louvre
Painting ID::  59540 		Georges de La Tour
The cheat with the ace of diamonds
The cheat with the ace of diamonds, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Another version is in the Louvre
   
   
     
Georges de La Tour The Newborn Christ oil painting


The Newborn Christ
The Newborn Christ
Painting ID::  59541 		Georges de La Tour
The Newborn Christ
The Newborn Christ
   
   
     
Georges de La Tour The Dream of St. Joseph oil painting


The Dream of St. Joseph
The Dream of St. Joseph
Painting ID::  59542 		Georges de La Tour
The Dream of St. Joseph
The Dream of St. Joseph
   
   
     
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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.

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