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2 days agoGeorges de La Tour, once a victim of the academy's collective amnesia, can be seen in a new light in Paris
And yet, not a century earlier, that name was near unknown to anyone who knew anything about the history of painting in France. In fact, it was a German art historian with prodigious visual recall, Hermann Voss, who in 1915 thought to connect two paintings in the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts (respectively signed "GS. de La Tour" and "G. de La Tour") with an unsigned canvas, titled Newborn Child, in Rennes.
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