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Georges de La Tour, who created the category of night-style paintings reaching great mastery in the same, was an important representative of French Caravaggism.
Born in 1593 in Vic-sur-Seille near Nancy.
Died on January 30, 1652 in Luneville, Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Georges de La Tour, who was initially titled as poor-people painter because his style showed neither traces of Mannerism nor Baroque, soon gained a high social standing, and in 1646, he even became court painter of King Louis XIV. His historical paintings and genre paintings steeped in special spirituality are closely aligned to Caravaggio's light-dark paintings. Georges de La Tour was renowned for his night-style paintings, in which he depicted only a few people mainly standing largely in the foreground illuminated by an artificial light source. His paintings, which partly captivate by their simplicity created by their few geometric shapes, possess a special magic and psychological interpenetration of facial expressions and gestures of the depicted persons.

Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player

Blower with a Pipe

Boy blowing into a lamp

Job Mocked by His Wife

Mary Magdalene with a night light

Peasant Couple Eating

Saint Andrew

Saint Anne with the Christ Child

Saint Jacob the Jew

Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome Reading

Saint Jerome Reading a Letter

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Saint Jude Thaddius

Saint Peter Repentant

Saint Sebastian Attended by Saint Irene

Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene

Saint Thomas

St. Joseph, the Carpenter

The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Appearance of the Angel to St. Joseph

The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

The Dice-Players

The Education of the Virgin

The Flea Catcher

The Fortune Teller

The Hurdy-Gurdy

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

The Hurdy-gurdy Player with a Dog

The Image of Saint Alexis

The Magdalene at the Mirror

The Newborn Infant

The Payment of Dues

The Payment of Taxes

The Penitent Magdalen

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Georges de La Tour - paintings