Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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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, a
Self-portrait with Lace Jabot (c. 1751)
Voltaire
Madame de Pompadour
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
…February 1788) 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. Maurice Quentin de La Tour was born on 5 September 1704 in Saint-Quentin. He was the third son of a musician…
Portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753
The house where Rousseau was born at number 40, Grand-Rue, Geneva
Les Charmettes, where Rousseau lived with Françoise-Louise de Warens from 1735 to 1736, now a museum dedicated to Rousseau
Françoise-Louise de Warens