Thursday, December 25, 2025

Merry Christmas! 

Georges de La Tour 
1593 - 1652)
 

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_de_La_Tour


The New-born
c. 1640
Oil on canvas
76 × 91 cm
Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, Rennes, France
https://images.grandpalaisrmn.fr/ark:/36255/04-513953

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