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Artists who influenced Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
He was, with Perronneau and Jean-Siméon Chardin, the most celebrated French pastellist of the 18th century. He was born in St Quentin and went to Paris as a young man; after visits to London and other places he settled in Paris 1724-84. He soon found that the vogue for pastel portraits started by Rosalba Carriera in 1719/20 was still capable of exploitation and he devoted the rest of his life to i ... more (Google)Artists who were influenced by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour

Jean-Siméon Chardin

Self Portrait

Self Portrait
(Norton Simon Museum)

Allan Ramsay

Rosalba Carriera

Louis XV
(Musee du Louvre)

Woman in Rose-Colored Gown
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Mary Cassatt

Joseph Vivien

Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet

Jean-Baptiste Philippe

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
   
Adelaide Labille-Guiard