Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, 1741 - Portrait of Gabriel Bernard Rieux - fine art print

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Gabriel Bernard de Rieux, the youngest son of an immensely successful financier, wears the robes of his office as president of the second Court of Inquiry in the Parliament of Paris. From a large tome held on his lap, he lifts a sheet of paper. Intending to declare the sitter's erudition, wealth, and status, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour placed de Rieux in his study, surrounded by fashionable and expensive objects. Behind him is a richly ornamental screen; on a table covered with blue velvet cloth are books, papers, and an inkstand with a quill pen. A globe stands next to the table and a Turkish carpet covers the floor. These objects identify the sitter as a connoisseur of fine and precious thing--like his father, whose considerable fortune de Rieux inherited the year this portrait was painted.

This large, full-length portrait, still in its original, massive gilt frame, was assembled from separate sheets of paper laid on canvas and drawn entirely in pastel. The most sought-after portraitist of his day, La Tour worked exclusively in pastel, producing likenesses of the nobility and the wealthy middle class that were applauded for both their technical mastery and their astonishing verisimilitude. In fact, one contemporary critic marveled that such a work as this portrait could be created using crayons.

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Portrait of Gabriel Bernard Rieux was painted by the artist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Nowadays, this piece of art is in the the collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum, which is part of the J. Paul Getty trust and is one of the world's largest arts organizations worldwide. It seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance.. The classic art masterpiece, which is in the public domain is supplied with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.: . What is more, the alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Maurice-Quentin de La Tour was a pastellist, whose art style can primarily be assigned to Rococo. The artist was born in the year 1704 in Saint-Quentin, Hauts-de-France, France and passed away at the age of 84 in the year 1788 in Saint-Quentin, Hauts-de-France, France.

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