Georges de La Tour The Penitent Magdalen Painting ID:: 2353 Georges de La Tour1.jpg
The Penitent Magdalen 1640
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Georges de La Tour The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds Painting ID:: 2355 Georges de La Tour3.jpg
The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds c1647
Musee du Louvre, Paris
41.75" x 57.5"
Georges de La Tour The Fortune Teller Painting ID:: 2356 Georges de La Tour4.jpg
The Fortune Teller 1632-35
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
102 x 123.5cm / 40.15" x48.62"
Georges de La Tour Joseph the Carpenter Painting ID:: 2357 Georges de La Tour5.jpg
Joseph the Carpenter 1645
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Georges de La Tour St.Irene Removing Arrows from St.Sebastian's Leg Painting ID:: 2358 Georges de La Tour6.jpg
St.Irene Removing Arrows from St.Sebastian's Leg
Georges de La Tour The Repentant Magdalen Painting ID:: 2359 Georges de La Tour7.jpg
The Repentant Magdalen 1635
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Georges de La Tour St Sebastian Tended by St Irene (mk05) Painting ID:: 20562 new6/Georges de La Tour-342558.jpg
St Sebastian Tended by St Irene (mk05) Canvas,66 x 51 1/2''(167 x 131 cm)Given in 1979
Georges de La Tour The Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05) Painting ID:: 20564 new6/Georges de La Tour-843987.jpg
The Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05) Canvas,42 1/4 x 51 1/2''(107 x 131 cm)Acquired in 1926
Georges de La Tour Hurdy-Gurdy Player (mk08) Painting ID:: 21563 new6/Georges de La Tour-964757.jpg
Hurdy-Gurdy Player (mk08) c.1620-1630
Oil on canvas,162x105cm
Nantes,Musee des Beaux-Arts
Georges de La Tour The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Spades (mk08) Painting ID:: 21567 new6/Georges de La Tour-677498.jpg
The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Spades (mk08) c.1620-1640
Oil on canvas,
106x146cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Georges de La Tour St Sebastian Attended by St Irene (mk08) Painting ID:: 21569 new6/Georges de La Tour-937736.jpg
St Sebastian Attended by St Irene (mk08) c.1634-1643
Oil on canvas
160x129cm
Berlin,Gemaldegalerie
Georges de La Tour Hurdy-Gurdy Player Painting ID:: 33594 new9/Georges de La Tour-694666.jpg
Hurdy-Gurdy Player mk86
c.1620-1630
Oil on canvas
162x105cm
Nantes,Musee des Beaux-Arts
Georges de La Tour The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Spades Painting ID:: 33595 new9/Georges de La Tour-456486.jpg
The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Spades mk86
c.1620-1640
Oil on canvas
106x146cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Georges de La Tour St Sebastian Attended by St Irene Painting ID:: 33596 new9/Georges de La Tour-582363.jpg
St Sebastian Attended by St Irene mk86
c.1634-1643
Oil on canvas
160x129cm
Berlin,Gemaldegalerie
Georges de La Tour Die Auffindung der Leiche des Hl.Sebastian Painting ID:: 34359 new10/Georges de La Tour-333265.jpg
Die Auffindung der Leiche des Hl.Sebastian mk92
1649
167x130cm
Bois Anzeray
Pfarrkirche.z.Zt.Broglie.Pfarrkirche
Georges de La Tour Gilles Painting ID:: 34360 new10/Georges de La Tour-659988.jpg
Gilles mk92
1721
184x149cm
Paris.
Louvre
Georges de La Tour The Education of the Virgin Painting ID:: 38215 new11/Georges de La Tour-878292.jpg
The Education of the Virgin mk29
c.1650
Oil on canvas
83.8x100.4cm
Georges de La Tour Ijob will mock of its woman Painting ID:: 39411 new12/Georges de La Tour-937274.jpg
Ijob will mock of its woman mk148
Illustration von Ijob 2,9-10.In der Bibel wird Ijobs frau nicht Namentlich erwähnt,In der Bibel wird Ijobs Frau nicht namentlich erwähnt,nach dem Testament Ijobs heißt sie Sitis
Georges de La Tour The apostle Thomas Painting ID:: 39455 new12/Georges de La Tour-262668.jpg
The apostle Thomas mk148
The apostle holds became a javelin in the Handder legend after it in its martyr death of javelins durchbohrt (s. head text)
Georges de La Tour The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds Painting ID:: 40445 new16/Georges de La Tour-892696.jpg
The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds mk156
1635
Oil on canvas
106x146cm
Georges de La Tour Magdalene of the Night Light Painting ID:: 40464 new16/Georges de La Tour-352857.jpg
Magdalene of the Night Light mk156
1642-44
Oil on canvas
128x94cm
Georges de La Tour Young Christ with St.Joseph in the Capenter-s shop Painting ID:: 40465 new16/Georges de La Tour-997983.jpg
Young Christ with St.Joseph in the Capenter-s shop mk156
c.1642
Oil on canvas
137x101cm
Georges de La Tour The Fortune Teller Painting ID:: 41289 new16/Georges de La Tour-392229.jpg
The Fortune Teller mk161
Oil on canvas
Georges de La Tour The adoracion of the shepherds Painting ID:: 42038 new16/Georges de La Tour-643228.jpg
The adoracion of the shepherds mk166
First half of the 17th century.
I wave on cloth
107x131cm Museum of the Louvre, Paris
Georges de La Tour Bauernapaar Painting ID:: 45585 new17/Georges de La Tour-569545.jpg
Bauernapaar mk186
eating peas around 1622-25 Berlin foundation national Museem, Gemaldegalerie
Georges de La Tour The incorrect player Painting ID:: 45653 new17/Georges de La Tour-456579.jpg
The incorrect player mk186
1620-40 Paris muse you Louvre
Georges de La Tour The botfardiga Maria Magdalena Painting ID:: 53832 new19/Georges de La Tour-262797.jpg
The botfardiga Maria Magdalena mk234
about 1635
113x93cm
Georges de La Tour the fortune teller Painting ID:: 56062 new20/Georges de La Tour-449659.jpg
the fortune teller mk247
c.1632 to 35,oil on canvas,40x49 in,102x123.5 cm,metropolitan museum of art,new york,ny,usa
Georges de La Tour st.joseph the carpenter Painting ID:: 56065 new20/Georges de La Tour-647798.jpg
st.joseph the carpenter mk247
1635 to 40,oil on canvas,54x40 in,137x101 cm,louvre,paris,france
1593-1652
French
Georges de La Tour Galleries
His early work shows influences from Caravaggio, probably via his Dutch followers, and the genre scenes of cheats??as in The Fortune Teller ??and fighting beggars clearly derive from the Dutch Caravaggisti, and probably also his fellow-Lorrainer, Jacques Bellange. These are believed to date from relatively early in his career.
La Tour is best known for the nocturnal light effects which he developed much further than his artistic predecessors had done, and transferred their use in the genre subjects in the paintings of the Dutch Caravaggisti to religious painting in his. Unlike Caravaggio his religious paintings lack dramatic effects. He painted these in a second phase of his style, perhaps beginning in the 1640s, using chiaroscuro, careful geometrical compositions, and very simplified painting of forms. His work moves during his career towards greater simplicity and stillness ?? taking from Caravaggio very different qualities than Jusepe de Ribera and his Tenebrist followers did.
He often painted several variations on the same subjects, and his surviving output is relatively small. His son Etienne was his pupil, and distinguishing between their work in versions of La Tour's compositions is difficult. The version of the Education of the Virgin, in the Frick Collection in New York is an example, as the Museum itself admits. Another group of paintings (example left), of great skill but claimed to be different in style to those of de La Tour, have been attributed to an unknown "Hurdy-gurdy Master". All show older male figures (one group in Malibu includes a female), mostly solitary, either beggars or saints.
After his death in 1652, La Tour's work was largely forgotten until rediscovered by Hermann Voss, a German scholar, in 1915. In 1935 an exhibition in Paris began the revival in interest among a wider public. In the twentieth century a number of his works were identified once more, and forgers tried to help meet the new demand; many aspects of his œuvre remain controversial among art historians.