Georges de La Tour

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Georges de La Tour was a 17th-century French Baroque painter renowned for his masterful use of candlelit chiaroscuro in quiet, contemplative scenes of everyday life and religious subjects.

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Label Occurrences
Georges de La Tour canonical 6

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque painter
French Baroque painter
painter
person
artStyle chiaroscuro
tenebrism
birthDate 1593-03-13
birthPlace Vic-sur-Seille
catalogueRaisonneAuthor Hermann Voss NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
deathDate 1652-01-30
deathPlace Lunéville
depicts beggars
biblical scenes
card players
musicians
employer King Louis XIII
surface form: Louis XIII of France
genre genre painting
religious painting
influencedBy Caravaggio
Caravaggisti
movement Baroque
name Georges de La Tour self-link
notableFor paintings of everyday life
quiet contemplative scenes
religious subjects
use of candlelit chiaroscuro
notableWork Joseph the Carpenter
Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
Joseph the Carpenter
surface form: Saint Joseph the Carpenter

Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene
The Hurdy-Gurdy Player
surface form: The Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player

The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
surface form: The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

The Dream of Saint Joseph
The Fortune Teller
The Hurdy-Gurdy Player
The Newborn
Penitent Magdalene
surface form: The Penitent Magdalene
numberOfChildren 10
paintingTechnique oil on canvas
patron King Louis XIII
surface form: Louis XIII of France
rediscoveredIn 20th century
regionOfActivity Lorraine
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
signatureForm G. de La Tour
signatureLanguage Latin
spouse Diane Le Nerf
title Peintre ordinaire du Roi
workLocation Duchy of Lorraine
Lunéville

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Subject: Georges de La Tour
Description of subject: Georges de La Tour was a 17th-century French Baroque painter renowned for his masterful use of candlelit chiaroscuro in quiet, contemplative scenes of everyday life and religious subjects.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Masters hasNotableExample Georges de La Tour
Caravaggisti hasNotableMember Georges de La Tour
French Baroque art majorArtist Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour name Georges de La Tour self-link
Musée de Grenoble hasWorkBy Georges de La Tour