Georges de La Tour (1593-1653),

• Was a French Baroque painter.
• He spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine.
• He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
• Georges de La Tour was born in the town of Vic-sur-Seille in the Diocese of Metz.
• In 1617 he married Diane Le Nerf, from a minor noble family.
• In 1620 he established his studio in her quiet provincial home-town of Lunéville.
• He was given the title "Painter to the King" (of France) in 1638, and he also worked for the Dukes of Lorraine in 1623–4.
• He often painted several variations on the same subjects.
• His son Étienne was his pupil.
• Georges de La Tour and his family died in 1652 in an epidemic in Lunéville. 
• The displayed painting is a crop from: The Penitent Magdalen, 1640.
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