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Visiting this weekend? The Textile Fair is taking place from 6 – 8 November

All visitors, including members, must pre-book their tickets.

If you’d like to visit the fair, book your tickets here, there’s an option to purchase for just the Fair, or a Fairs and Gallery ticket to get access to all Compton Verney has to offer.

If you don’t wish to visit the fair, you can purchase a general admission ticket (reduced to £0 for members when you log in), but please note the ground floor galleries are accessible to Fair ticket holders only.

 

 

Georges de la Tour: Master of Candlelight

30 June 2007 – 9 September 2007

About the
exhibition

To compliment The Shadow exhibition, Compton Verney presented a number of key candlelight works by the French artist Georges de La Tour (1593-1652).

La Tour was born in the Duchy of Lorraine and influenced by the work of Caravaggio. His works have been attributed to a number of artists and it is only since 1915 that a group of his signed paintings were linked and attributed conclusively to LaTour.

It was not until 1972 when all his surviving works were brought together in a major retrospective exhibition at The Orangerie, Paris that he came to the attention of a wider public.This exhibition represented a rare opportunity for British audiences to view La Tour’s paintings and focussed on a number of powerful works, mainly from La Tour’s late period, which concentrate on the effect of light on the human figure.

The exhibition was  accompanied by a publication with an essay by the art historian Christopher Wright.