La Tour

La Vie et l’Oeuvre de l’Artiste

Albert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein

The catalog emphasizes the skill and observational gifts of Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), who renewed the art of portrait painting and the technique of pastel to offer an original panorama of the cosmopolitan society of the eighteenth century.

AuthorAlbert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein
Publication Date1928
PublisherParis, Les Beaux-Arts, Édition d’études et de documents,
Collection “L’Art français”
Out of print

La Tour

Albert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein 1928
Paris, Les Beaux-Arts, Édition d’études et de documents
Collection “L’Art français”
333 pages, 25 x 32.5 cm
268 black & white figures
120 black & white plates

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