Georges de La Tour

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter who lived from 1593 to 1652 and 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, and as a keen observer of everyday reality at the confluence of Nordic, Italian and French cultures, his pronounced taste for plays of light and shadow makes him one of the most original successors of Caravaggio. Recognised during his lifetime, he was quickly forgotten after his death, and was rediscovered in the early twentieth century by the German art historian Hermann Voss. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/