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Gabriel Bernard de Rieux
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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.
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About Gabriel Bernard de Rieux
You can see it at Getty Center in Los Angeles, United States. Maurice Quentin de La Tour created it. The sitter's personality emerges with notable immediacy.
La Tour worked in pastel, achieving notable vivacity and psychological depth. The sitter's personality emerges with notable immediacy Maurice Quentin de La Tour created this work.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour was the greatest pastel portraitist of 18th-century France. His large-scale pastel portraits captured the elegance and personality of French aristocracy with vivid immediacy.
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