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The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

Georges de La Tour · 1635

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Georges de La Tour

French · 1593–1652

Baroque

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.

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The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
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The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

Georges de La Tour · 1635

Louvre

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
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Magdalene with the Smoking Flame

Georges de La Tour · 1642

Louvre

Joseph the Carpenter
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Joseph the Carpenter

Georges de La Tour · 1642

Louvre

The Musicians' Brawl
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The Musicians' Brawl

Georges de La Tour · 1620

The Repentant Magdalen

Georges de La Tour

National Gallery of Art

Works worth knowing

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The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
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The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

Georges de La Tour · 1635

Louvre

The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is an oil-on-canvas painting produced c. 1636 to 1638 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. It is now in the Louvre, which bought it in 1972.

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
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Magdalene with the Smoking Flame

Georges de La Tour · 1642

Louvre

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame (also titled in French La Madeleine à la veilleuse, and La Madeleine à la flamme filante) is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary Magdalene by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour. Two versions of this painting exist, one in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the other in the Louvre Museum in Paris (La Madeleine a la veilleuse).

Joseph the Carpenter
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Joseph the Carpenter

Georges de La Tour · 1642

Louvre

Joseph the Carpenter is an oil painting by Georges de La Tour created circa 1642. The painting depicts a young Jesus with Saint Joseph, his earthly father. Joseph drills a piece of wood with an auger.

The Musicians' Brawl
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The Musicians' Brawl

Georges de La Tour · 1620

The Musicians' Brawl is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour, produced at an unknown date between 1620 and 1630. Previously attributed to Caravaggio, the work was in Lord Trevor's collection by 1928. It was reattributed to de la Tour in 1958 by Charles Sterling and Francois-Georges Pariset and sold in 1972.

The Repentant Magdalen

Georges de La Tour

National Gallery of Art

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame (also titled in French La Madeleine à la veilleuse, and La Madeleine à la flamme filante) is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary Magdalene by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour. Two versions of this painting exist, one in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the other in the Louvre Museum in Paris (La Madeleine a la veilleuse).

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