Maurice Quentin de La Tour

1704–1788 · Rococo

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.

16 paintings

• Portrait de Charles-Louis-Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684-1761), maréchal de France (1748)
• Portrait de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), écrivain et philosophe (1753)
• Marie-Sophie de Courcillon, Duchesse de Pecquigny, Princesse de Rohan (1740)
• Portrait de la Maréchale de Belle-Isle (1800)
• The Abbé Jean-Jacques Huber Reading (1699 –1747) (1742)
• Louis Stanislas Xavier de France, comte de Provence (1762)
• Préparation for a Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774) (1745)
• Claude Dupouch. (1739)
• Jean Charles Garnier d'Isle (1697–1755) (1750)
• Mlle Ferrand Meditating on Newton (1753)
• Portrait of Pierre-Louis Laideguive (1761)
• Portrait of Philibert Orry (1689-1747) (1737)
• Self-portrait with frill (1750)
• Madame Du Châtelet at her Desk (1750)
• Portrait of the engraver Schmidt (1760)
• Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux (1740)