. International studio. years m\sole preoccupation withSaint-Quentin wastreasure, the seldomseen and little knowncollection of pastels bythe renowned MauriceQuentin de La Tour. The knowledge ofthis priceless collectionof the works of the .iist seemed Ireserved lor the know-ing ones and Saint-Quentin lx-came a place of pious pilgrimagartists and amateurs, while an occasional special-ist would drop oil the train at the quiet stationand make his wa\ through the provincial sito the little shrine to the memon oi this whims .favorite of the Eighteenth Century, whoaspirited, light, frivolous and gall
. International studio. years m\sole preoccupation withSaint-Quentin wastreasure, the seldomseen and little knowncollection of pastels bythe renowned MauriceQuentin de La Tour. The knowledge ofthis priceless collectionof the works of the .iist seemed Ireserved lor the know-ing ones and Saint-Quentin lx-came a place of pious pilgrimagartists and amateurs, while an occasional special-ist would drop oil the train at the quiet stationand make his wa\ through the provincial sito the little shrine to the memon oi this whims .favorite of the Eighteenth Century, whoaspirited, light, frivolous and gallantin his pastel portraiture. Perhaps the most famous pastellisf ol all IMaurice Quentin de la lour was aSaint-Quentin. One oi thealities o( the court of 1 ouis W . h<traitist to the king aiu ; in his inimit wax not onlx the he.: SI P T 1 XI II I K inceROAcionAL. STUDY OF MADAME FAYARTBY QUENTIN DE LA TOL R Leczinska, of the dauphin andof Marie-Josephe de Saxe, butthose of the whole of the court with Madame dePompadour, the Marechal de Saxe, the Princede Conde, with Mademoiselle de Camargo andMadame Favart, Voltaire and Diderot, JeanJacques Rousseau and Buffon, the court, thetheatre, the literary, the philosophic, and thescientific world, and La Tour, himself, with histhin lace, his sharp nose, his careless costumepresiding over his handiwork, revealing himself asunreservedly as he reveals the whole fabric of thesocial system about him. The collection of eighty-seven pastels, whichtituted La Fours reserve and which containshis rich accumulation ol preparations and notesfor his official portraits, came to the citj of Saint-Quentin as a legacy from the artists heir, hisbrother, whose portrah (the cavalrj officeiin red uniform bordered with silver) forms oneof the collection. La lour died only a few ? irs before tin Ri olution; his brother sunu
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