A mixed media sculpture of the Artist Maurice Quentin De La Tour, in the main square, St Quentin, France.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadou. He was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a musician who disapproved of his taking up painting. At the age of fifteen La Tour went to Paris, where he entered the studio of the Flemish painter Jacques Spoede. He then went to Rheims in 1724 and to England in 1725, returning to Paris to resume his studies around 1727. After his return to Paris, he began working with pastels. In 1737 La Tour exhibited the first of a splendid series of 150 portraits that served as one of the glories of the Paris Salon for the next 37 years. Endowing his sitters with a distinctive charm and intelligence, he excelled at capturing the delicate play of their features. In 1746 La Tour was received into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture and in 1751 was promoted to councillor. He was made portraitist to the king in 1750 and held this position until 1773, when he suffered a nervous breakdown. For a time the painter Joseph Ducreux was his only student. La Tour founded an art school and became a philanthropist before being confined to his home because of mental illness. He retired at the age of 80 to Saint-Quentin where he died at the age of 83. His scuplture was by Monneret. In 1994, Monneret invented Figurines Art: famous people of the world arise paint their part to appear in statuettes sculpted by the artist, in the reality of the third dimension. contemporary performance creating a truly new genealogy of art . Shortly after removal Monneret other patents to protect a new invention: urban sculptures from the same origin, or expanded to renowned figures: statesmen, artists, singers, athletes, Maurice Quentin de la Tour Saint-Quentin, Claude Nougaro Toulouse, Gauguin in Papeete, Holland Vermeer, Van Gogh in Auvers, Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence or Rober
Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Saint-Quentin, Picardy, France.
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: artist, de, france, jean, la, main, maurice, media, mixed, monneret, painter, picardy, quentin, sculptor, sculpture, square, st, tour
