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Georges de La Tour BiographyFrench Baroque artistborn 1593 - died 1652 Georges de La Tour was born on March 13, 1593 in the town of Vic-upon-Seille, in Lorraine. His baptism document indicates that he was the son of Jean de La Tour, baker, and Sybille de La Tour, née Molian (or Malian). All Sybille’s parents and siblings were bakers. Jean’s father was a mason, but he, however, had chosen the profession of his wife’s relatives. Jean and Sybille had 7 children, Georges de La Tour was the second one, the children grew in the wealthy surroundings of well-to-do artisans. |
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Where was George formed and
what was his education, where did he spend
his youth? Maybe in Vic itself, where the
Swiss painter Claude Dogoz lived, or maybe
at Nance, at the studio of
Jacques Bellange (died in 1616).
Maybe Georges de La Tour traveled further from his house,
even to Italy, but there is no evidence of
it. We do not know where and who trained
him. But there's evidence that young George
had friends in the court of the Duke of
Lorraine. In 1617, at the age of 24, Georges
de La Tour married Diane Le Nerf, who was born in 1591
into an ennobled family: her father, Jean Le
Nerf, was the treasurer of the Duke of
Lorraine and lived in Lunéville. The young
couple settled in Vic in the parental house. |
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| In his lifetime he must have been one of the most admired painters. Not many of Georges de La Tour paintings survived, and these can be divided into his early ‘day pieces’, and the later ‘night pieces’. But both attributions (he only rarely signed Georges de La Tour painting) and chronological order remain questionable. To 1620-1630 belong Porridge Eaters, a row of Hurdy-Gurdy Players. The brutal realism, unflattering presentation of the miserable subjects does not at all mean a sympathetic attitude to the socially disadvantaged of the day, on the contrary, issues of this kind were intended to amuse high society, who enjoyed decorating the walls of their patrician homes with such melodramatic scenes. |
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Another modern topic of the day, made
popular by Caravaggio, is also present in Georges de La Tour paintings. The Card-Sharp with the Ace of
Diamonds, The Card-Sharp with the Ace of
Clubs, and The Fortune-Teller, compare to Carravaggio’s The Cardsharps (I Bari), The
Fortune-Teller . An inexperienced, wealthy
and opulently dressed young man is being
cheated at cards in the dubious company of a
courtesan with her lover and a servant girl.
Wine and the promise of erotic adventure
have made the young dandy so light-headed
that Georges de La Tour does not notice the unsubtle trick of
an ace being drawn from his opponent's belt. Such depictions belonged to the
moralizing genre. Most of the canvases by La Tour we have at our disposal the art historians date after 1640. In these Georges de La Tour paintings he is captivated with lightning effects, which do not create blurred forms but sharp contours instead. Repenting Magdalene, St. Joseph, the Carpenter. This fascination with light brought him great success in his day. However, Georges de La Tour was completely forgotten after his death, only to be rediscovered in our own day. |
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