Gallery of the Masters 
Georges de La Tour
1593-1652 France/Baroque
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Brief Biography-Georges de La Tour, from Vic-sur-Seille in France, spent most of his life with his family in Lorraine. He painted mainly in Caravaggio's style with an emphasis on chiaroscuro. Some of his images are tenebrist, a term rarely used in the description. There is also an influence of French classicism in his works on religious and genre subjects. He only produced a small number of pieces, estimated to be roughly forty; however, the nobility of his time collected his paintings, and he gained the title of Painter in Ordinary to the King. He sadly died along with his wife during an epidemic in 1652. |
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Blind
Musician
Cheater
Ghironda
Player
Fortune
Teller
Peasant
Couple
Christ in the
Carpenters
Payment
of Dues
Penitent
Magdalene
Hurdy Gurdy
Player with Dog
Maria
Magdalena
Job Mocked
by his Wife
Portrait of an Old
Man
Repentant Saint
Jerome
Saint Jacobus
the Younger
Saint Jerome
Reading a Letter
Portrait of an Old
Woman
Saint Sebastien
Attended-
Saint Judas
of Thaddaus
The Adoration of
the Shepherds
Saint
Thomas
The
Dream
The
Ecstasy
The Young
Singer
The
Penitence
Saint
Thomas
Catching
Fleas
Boy Blows
a Lamp
Dice P
layers
Saint
Sebastien
Quarreling
Musicians
Education of
the Virgin
