Description: 79-tir71Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).Struck in 1978.Some traces of handling.On the reverse: The artist making the famous pastel portrait of Madame la Dauphine of France accompanied by the Duke of Burgundy (1761), a work visible in Saint Quentin, Musée Antoine LécuyerEngraver / artist : Santucci .Dimension : 77 mm .Weight : 206 g.Metal : bronze .Mark on the edge : cornucopia + bronze + 1978.Fast and careful shipping.The easel is not for sale.The stand is not for saleMaurice-Quentin2 de La Tour, born September 5, 1704 in Saint-Quentin, where he died February 17, 1788, is a French pastel portrait painter. Third son of François de La Tour3, master writer, geographical engineer and cantor of the city's collegiate church and of Reine Zanar, Quentin de La Tour was born and raised at 57 rue de La Tour4 in the shadow of the church in the district occupied by the canons and the mastery. During his childhood, instead of listening to the teacher, he sketched his classmates and covered his notebooks with sketches4. In 1718, he dedicated a perspective of Saint-Quentin drawn in pencil to the principal of the college, Nicolas Desjardins4. His older brother had taken a career in finance and his younger brother in arms4. After leaving college, at eighteen, wanting to become a painter, he left Saint-Quentin for Reims, then Cambrai, in search of models and masters4.He entered into an apprenticeship with Claude Dupouch, painter and member of the prestigious Académie de Saint-Luc, in Paris, on October 16, 1719. In 1722, he returned to Saint-Quentin where he had an affair with his first cousin, aged 22, Anne Bougier5.In 1725, staying in Cambrai, where the congress intended to reconcile Emperor Charles VI and King Philip V of Spain at the end of the Anglo-Spanish War met, he was noted for the beautiful portrait he made a Spanish ambassador, by the extraordinary ambassador of the King of England Horace Walpole, who invited him to follow him to London and placed a wing of his palace at his disposal6. In England, his association with the aristocracy and the high aristocracy taught him to conThird son of François de La Tour3, master writer, geographical engineer and cantor of the city's collegiate church and of Reine Zanar, Quentin de La Tour was born and raised at 57 rue de La Tour4 in the shadow of the church in the district occupied by the canons and the mastery. During his childhood, instead of listening to the teacher, he sketched his classmates and covered his notebooks with sketches4. In 1718, he dedicated a perspective of Saint-Quentin drawn in pencil to the principal of the college, Nicolas Desjardins4. His older brother had taken a career in finance and his younger brother in arms4. After leaving college, at eighteen, wanting to become a painter, he left Saint-Quentin for Reims, then Cambrai, in search of models and masters4. In 1725, staying in Cambrai, where the co
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