On de La Tour's name
May 26 2017
Picture: Neil Jeffares
In what he proudly calls 'the most boring post I have ever written', king of alll things pastel Neil Jeffares looks at how we should write the name of Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. He had two forenames, Maurice and Quentin, and the hyphen between the two we commonly see derives from Napoleonic legislation about such things, which, oddly enough, are still on the statute books today. And the 'de' is not to be mistaken for a noble lineage. More here.
Incidentally, now is the time to confess that I don't know how to pronounce' Neil's last name.
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