Gudenå
Gudenå , river, 98 mi (158 km) long, E Jutland, Denmark. The only Danish river of importance, it flows generally north, traversing several lakes, past Silkeborg, then NE past Randers (the chief port) to Randersfjørd and the Kattegat. It is partly navigable and has salmon fisheries.
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It may be bonnie, but it's not Prince Charlie, embarrassed art gallery chiefs discover
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/20/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Prince Charlie by the French master Maurice- Quentin La Tour, has hung with pride in the Scottish...portrait of a cardinal with this La Tour pastel. It was a brilliant thing...The mystery is then how the La Tour pastel in the portrait gallery...
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The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...paintings by Francois Boucher and Maurice-Quentin de La Tour are among the most impressive of...Versailles, including Boucher and La Tour, Montesquieu, and Helvetius...detailed examination of the La Tour pastel portrait of 1755 that is...
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CHARDIN AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...pastels, with which his friend Maurice-Quentin La Tour had enjoyed great success, when...which underlies his composure. La Tour, who was no flatterer, had portrayed...passing academicians, including La Tour, saw his canvases and persuaded...
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History trumps aesthetics at Old Masters sales
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The pastel self-portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour is a remarkable discovery for which...was in the possession of de la Tour's best friend, Alexander Neilson...price ever for any work by de la Tour, to save it for the museum.In...
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A craving for colour
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/31/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...reaction to the memory of being trained in a grim St Quentin school where the use of colour at all was banned...t offer anything much better than the pastels of Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and the rather pathetic offerings of the teachers...
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The art of pastel
Magazine article from: Southwest Art; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...hundreds of pastel artists worked in Paris, of which one of the most brilliant was Maurice Quentin de La Tour [1704-1788]. Converted to pastel by Camera, La Tour's skillful draftsmanship allowed him to push the medium to new limits. Another...
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Hands-on pastel
Newspaper article from: The Press; 7/11/2001; 398 words
; ...common with Maria Cosway? What links Mike Glover with Maurice Quentin de la Tour? The answer is sticks of powdered pigments, bound...in 18th-century Europe when artists such as de la Tour, Cosway, and Liotard used the medium to create velvety...
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A WRONG CHARLIE.. 'Portrait is Bonnie Prince's brother'.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 6/21/2008; 567 words
; ...a cardinal. But the current bosses insist the work is of Charlie. They maintain it was painted in 1748 by Maurice Quentin de la Tour - two years after the Jacobites' bloody defeat at Culloden. Dr Thomson, who oversaw the purchase of the painting...
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ART
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/3/1994; ; 317 words
; ...was moved to a side wall to make room for the Jacobite leader. The pastel, created by the French painter Maurice-Quentin de la Tour in Paris in 1748, is believed to have belonged to the Young Pretender. It "came home" 249 years after Prince...
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Art Reviews: Blurred at the edges
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...year-old (after Antonio David); the officious young leader in his sharp suit and tartan tie (after Maurice-Quentin de la Tour) and finally, sheepishly disguised as Betty Burke (after J Williams). It takes us into the heart of the...
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La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de ( b Saint-Quentin, 5 Sept. 1704; d Saint-Quentin, 17 Feb. 1788). With Perronneau the most celebrated and the most successful French pastel portraitist of the 18th century. His portraits are remarkable for...
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Maurice Quentin de La Tour , 1704-88, French portraitist working in pastel. From 1737 to...his work is in the Louvre and in the museum of his native Saint-Quentin. Bibliography: See biography by A. Bury (1973).
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Saint-Quentin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saint-Quentin , city (1990 pop. 62,085), Aisne dept., N France...eacute;e Lécuyer contains pastels by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, who was born in Saint-Quentin. In the city is the Collégiale Saint-Quentin...
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Carriera, Rosalba
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...triumphant visits to Paris (1720–1) and Vienna (1730). Her success helped to popularize pastel; Maurice Quentin de La Tour , for example, was converted to the medium through his admiration for her. It is now hard to appreciate why...
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pastel
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...internationally successful and helped inspire the great vogue for pastel portraiture in 18th-century France ( Chardin , Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , and Perronneau being famous exponents). During the first half of the 19th century the medium declined in...
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