Maurice Quentin de La Tour · 1753
France · 1704–1788
Maurice Quentin de La Tour was a French painter who specialised in portrait painting using pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XV, and Madame de Pompadour. == Life == Maurice Quentin de La Tour was born on 5 September 1704 in Saint-Quentin. He was the third son of a musician, François de La Tour. François was from Laon and he was the son of a master mason, Jean de La Tour, of Laon and Saint-Quentin, who died in 1674.
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