Quentin de La Tour

Maurice Quentin de La Tour;Maurice-Quentin de La Tour

1704 (St-Quentin, France) – 1788 (St-Quentin)

Chardin was one of the artist friends La Tour made portraits of. The philosophes Rousseau, d’Alembert and Voltaire were among his best friends; Diderot considered asking him to contribute to his and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie.