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Pompadour at Her Toilette is an oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher from 1750 (with later additions) depicting Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France. Boucher's painting titled "Madame de Pompadour" also demonstrates the Rococo style. The format of the painting changed several times after its initial creation.
Gradually he made more and more sketches as independent works for the market. The Adoration of the Shepherds (Metropolitan Museum of Art), a free and painterly sketch in gouache, was long considered a preparatory sketch for Madame de Pompadour's private altarpiece La lumière du monde (ca. 1750, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon). Recent scholarship ...
Madame de Pompadour, pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, shown at the Paris Salon, 1755 . Madame de Pompadour was an influential patron of the arts who played a central role in making Paris the perceived capital of taste and culture in Europe.
Portrait of Madame de Pompadour is a 1759 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Rococo artist François Boucher, now in the Wallace Collection in London. [1] It was the last of a series of seven portraits by the artist of Madame de Pompadour. It was first exhibited at the Château de Versailles before passing to the subject's brother.
The Light of the World is a 1750 oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter François Boucher, now in the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon.. It was Madame de Pompadour's first commission from the artist and his first large-format religious work – he only produced a total of five of the latter.
The Rising of the Sun is a 1752 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist François Boucher.It and its pair The Setting of the Sun were both private commissions for Madame de Pompadour as full-scale models for the Gobelins Manufactory.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis kɑ̃tɛ̃ də la tuʁ]; 5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French painter who worked primarily with pastels in the Rococo style. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and the Madame de Pompadour.
Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame is a 1753–64 painting by François-Hubert Drouais showing Madame de Pompadour embroidering. It is now in the National Gallery, London. Until 1974 it was at Mentmore Towers as a part of the Rothchild collections.