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29.5 x 20.5 cm. (11.6 x 8.1 in.) M. Tourneux, G. Briere et Vitry, Bulletin de la Société de L'Historie de l'Art Français, 1908, p. 231; A. Besnard & G. Wildenstein ...

Since the 18th century, the works of Maurice Quentin de la Tour have been highly prized by connoisseurs of Old Master painting and largely ignored by everyone else. Part of the reason for his ...

When the French artist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour exhibited his monumental portrait of the magistrate and banking heir Gabriel Bernard de Rieux at the Paris Salon of 1741, he clearly intended the ...

One of the best known images of Bonnie Prince Charlie may in fact portray his younger brother, according to research by an art expert. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery's pastel portrait by ...

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, between 1748 and 1755 ... in a current exhibition at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, reports Susan Stamberg ...

80.6 x 65.4 cm. (31.7 x 25.7 in.) Thence by descent to his nephew Yves-Joseph-Charles Pommyer de Rougemont (1733-1808); Thence by descent to his daughter, Madame Louis Theurier, née Geneviève Pommyer ...

Nationalmuseum has acquired pastel portraits by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Henry-Pierre Danloux and Joseph Boze, three artists active during the golden age of pastel in 18th-century France.