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Circle of Georges de La Tour
1593-1652 |
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Description
Boy in Red Hat
Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
48 x 39 cm
Condition
Relined, heavy craquelure, some paint loss to bottom of canvas, edges of canvas have probably been cut.
Biography
Georges de La Tour (1593-1652). French painter. Few facts are known about his life, and few of these may be directly related to his paintings. Almost all his career was spent at Lunville, a small town 30 km from Nancy in the then independent duchy of Lorraine. His paintings, which are devoted to genre and religious subjects, seen in either daylight or candlelight, were conceived in a very personal variant of the style of Caravaggio. Many of them have a meditative, spiritual quality that has been compared to that found in the writings of his younger contemporary Blaise Pascal. This Christian atmosphere, which found expression in a style that seems to have moved towards an ever greater rigour of composition, simplification of forms and economy of means, has been related to Lorraine's involvement in the Roman Catholic renewal of the Counter-Reformation. La Tour's son Etienne de La Tour was trained in his father's workshop but seems to have abandoned his career as a painter after becoming lieutenant of the bailiwick of Lunville in 1660. A number of works in the manner of his father have been attributed to him, although there is much controversy on this subject.
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Boy in Red Hat
Estimate: $4,000/$8,000
Location: Israel
Number of Bids: 1
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