Maurice Quentin De La Tour

Style: Rococo;

Place: Saint-Quentin

Born: 1704

Death: 1788

Biography:

Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. He was born in Saint-Quentin, the third son of a musician, François de La Tour, a Laonnois and the son of a master mason, Jean d...