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Maurice Quentin de La Tour

1704 - 1788

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Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis kɑ̃tɛ̃ də la tuʁ]; 5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French painter who worked primarily with pastels in the Rococo style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Quentin de La Tour has received more than 198,774 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Maurice Quentin de La Tour is the 2,319th most popular politician (up from 2,781st in 2019), the 787th most popular biography from France (up from 919th in 2019) and the 178th most popular French Politician.

Maurice Quentin de la Tour was a French painter who is most famous for his portraits.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Maurice Quentin de La Tour ranks 2,319 out of 19,576Before him are Fatma Sultan, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Heinrich Lübke, Émile Loubet, Vitiges, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze. After him are Ahmed Sékou Touré, Giovanna of Italy, Jehoahaz of Judah, Phalaris, Henry the Young King, and Gustav Bauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Maurice Quentin de La Tour ranks 2Before him is Gabriel Cramer. After him are Tahmasp II, Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Carl Heinrich Graun, Hans Hermann von Katte, John Kay, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Johann Andreas Segner, and Louis de Jaucourt. Among people deceased in 1788, Maurice Quentin de La Tour ranks 6Before him are Charles III of Spain, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Charles Edward Stuart, and Thomas Gainsborough. After him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Georg Hamann, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, José, Prince of Brazil, and Infante Gabriel of Spain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Quentin de La Tour ranks 787 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932), Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789), Louis de Montfort (1673), Émile Loubet (1838), Sebastian Brant (1458), and Léonin (1135). After him are Jules Grévy (1807), Joanna of Bourbon (1338), Georges Rouault (1871), Robert Curthose (1054), Gaston Doumergue (1863), and Agnès Sorel (1422).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Maurice Quentin de La Tour ranks 178Before him are Joan II of Navarre (1311), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), René Coty (1882), Adélaïde of France (1732), Auguste Mariette (1821), and Émile Loubet (1838). After him are Jules Grévy (1807), Gaston Doumergue (1863), Léon Bourgeois (1851), Inessa Armand (1874), Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1766), and Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725).