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Maurice Quentin de La Tour created the pastel portrait with the vivid characterization that made him the most sought-after portraitist in 18th-century France. The sitter's personality emerges with notable immediacy.
La Tour's pastels captured French society with psychological acuity. This work is at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Other masterpieces from the Rococo movement

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767
Wallace Collection, London

Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
The Huntington, San Marino

François Boucher, 1752
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Joshua Reynolds, 1776
National Gallery, London

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Thomas Gainsborough, 1787
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

François Boucher, 1742
Louvre, Paris, Paris

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1719
Louvre, Paris, Paris
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