An apprenticeship was arranged for the young Maurice, with a painter named Dupouch, from 12 October 1719, but it is not known when this contract was terminated
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour was a French painter who specialised in portrait painting using pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XV, and Madame de Pompadour.
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culture · French painter (1704–1788) · pastellist · painter · draftsperson · visual artist · also Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Maurice Quentin de Latour, Quentin de La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Quentin de Latour, Maurice-Quentin de Latour
Born 5 September 1704 · Died 17 February 1788 · Q314655
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Died 1788-02-17.
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Born 1704-09-05.
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