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Georges de La Tour, once a victim of the academy’s collective amnesia, can be seen in a new light in Paris

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris opens a new exhibition, "Georges de La Tour: From Shadow to Light," running from 11 September 2025 to 25 January 2026. This is the first Paris show dedicated to the 17th-century French painter in nearly 30 years, featuring about 20 original works and a dozen studio pieces. The exhibition explores La Tour's working practice and his influence from Caravaggio, highlighting how his oeuvre—now counted at only 48 known works—was rediscovered after centuries of misattribution, thanks largely to German art historian Hermann Voss in 1915.

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Georges de La Tour, once a victim of the academy’s collective amnesia, can be seen in a new light in Paris

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris opens the first major exhibition dedicated to 17th-century French painter Georges de La Tour in nearly 30 years, featuring about 20 original works and a dozen studio pieces. The show, part of a series on Caravaggio's influence across Europe, highlights new scholarship on La Tour's working practice and the role of his atelier. La Tour was rediscovered in 1915 by German art historian Hermann Voss, who corrected a long-standing misattribution of his signed canvases to other artists, sparking a chain of rediscoveries that revived interest in an artist whose known oeuvre now numbers only 48 works.

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