Maurice Quentin de La Tour

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Rococo artist human painter pastel artist portraitist

Maurice Quentin de La Tour was an 18th-century French Rococo portraitist renowned for his masterful pastel depictions of prominent figures such as Voltaire and Louis XV.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Rococo artist → human → painter → pastel artist → portraitist →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1704-09-05 →
dateOfDeath	1788-02-17 →
depicted	Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Louis XV of France NERFINISHED → Madame de Pompadour → Maurice Quentin de La Tour NERFINISHED → Voltaire →
era	18th century →
ethnicGroup	French →
familyName	Quentin de La Tour →
fieldOfWork	pastel painting →
genre	portrait →
givenName	Maurice →
hasCollection	Louvre Museum → Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin → Musée du Château de Versailles →
influenced	later French portraitists →
knownFor	pastel portraits of 18th-century French elites → psychological insight in portraiture →
memberOf	Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →
movement	Rococo →
name	Maurice Quentin de La Tour →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableWork	Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Portrait of Louis XV → Portrait of Madame de Pompadour → Portrait of Voltaire → Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame → Self-portrait with frill →
occupation	painter → pastelist → portrait painter →
patron	Louis XV of France NERFINISHED → Madame de Pompadour →
placeOfBirth	Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France →
placeOfDeath	Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France →
positionHeld	councillor of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture → full member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →
sexOrGender	male →
style	Rococo →
technique	pastel on paper →
workLocation	Paris → Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →	hadMember
Maurice Quentin de La Tour →	name