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| France banknotes50 French Francs banknote, Quentin de La Tour |
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Euro exchange rate: 50 French Francs are the equivalent of 7 euros 62 euro cents (fixed rate of 6.55957 francs for 1 euro).
Obverse: Portrait of Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French Rococo portraitist. In the background - View of Palace of Versailles with several fountains that adorn the large basins.
Reverse: Same portrait of Quentin de La Tour. In the background - facade of the Saint Quentin City Hall (city of Saint-Quentin, Picardy on northern France), his hometown.
Watermark: Face of Maurice Quentin de la Tour from another self-portrait.
The dimensions are 150 mm x 80 mm.
The dominant colors are brown and blue-gray.
Printed by Banque de France from 1976 to 1992.
The banknote was designed by Bernard Taurelle, after a work by Lucien Fontanarosa which was inspired by pastel portrait of Maurice Quentin de La Tour, exhibited at Musée Antoine Lécuyer, engraved by Henri Renaud and Jacques Combet.
The 50 French francs Quentin de La Tour created by the Banque de France 15 June 1976 and issued on 4 April 1977. This bill replaces the 50 francs Racine and was replaced by the 50 francs Saint-Exupéry .
This note printed polychrome intaglio belongs to the second major series of "famous scientists and artists" commissioned by the Banque de France and which include Berlioz, Debussy, Delacroix, Montesquieu and Pascal.
The 50 francs Quentin de La Tour series, ceased to be legal tender from 30 November 2005: after this date 50 francs Quentin de La Tour can no longer be exchanged against the euro.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour.
He was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a musician who disapproved of his taking up painting. At the age of fifteen La Tour went to Paris, where he entered the studio of the Flemish painter Jacques Spoede. He then went to Rheims in 1724 and to England in 1725, returning to Paris to resume his studies around 1727. After his return to Paris, he began working with pastels.
In 1737 La Tour exhibited the first of a splendid series of 150 portraits that served as one of the glories of the Paris Salon for the next 37 years. Endowing his sitters with a distinctive charm and intelligence, he excelled at capturing the delicate play of their features.
In 1746 La Tour was received into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture and in 1751 was promoted to councillor. He was made portraitist to the king in 1750 and held this position until 1773, when he suffered a nervous breakdown. For a time the painter Joseph Ducreux was his only student. La Tour founded an art school and became a philanthropist before being confined to his home because of mental illness. He retired at the age of 80 to Saint-Quentin where he died at the age of 83.
The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles.
When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.