George de la tour biography of williams
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Our first specific information is based on a baptismal certificate issued on 14 March 1593 at Vic-sur-Seuille, Lorraine (NE France), which even notes the father's trade as baker.
George de la tour biography of williams
The ensuing years are less well documented. Most probably, the artist's early education took place in Vic and then, certainly, at the duchy's capital, Nancy.
Although no proof whatsoever exists, there is a good chance that the young painter travelled to Italy, a trip that was in fashion at the time with most people and with his young peers in Lorraine.
It was not uncommon for whole groups of his Lorraine co-citizens to take off for Italy, and other artists, such as Jacques Callot, may well have taken him along there.
In any case, one letter mentions him as a student of the Guide's, that is Guido Reni.
This discreet reference has served some art historians as grounds for assuming that perhaps La Tour did go to Italy and that, once there, perhaps he spent some time in Guido Reni's workshop and