biography
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La Tour, Georges de
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| lived:
| (1593–1652)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Vic-sur-Seille, NE France. From 1620 he worked at Lunéville and achieved a high reputation. The Duke of Lorraine became his patron, and later Louis XIII accepted a painting by him, liking it so much he had all works by other masters removed from his chambers. La Tour was entirely forgotten until his rediscovery in 1915. He specialized in candle-lit scenes, mostly of religious subjects, such as ‘St Joseph the Carpenter’ (1645, Louvre). |
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