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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century French people. It includes French people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:18th-century French men
Marie-Louise O'Murphy (French pronunciation: [ma.ʁi.lwiz ɔ‿.myʁ.fi]; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814) was a French model who was the youngest lesser mistress (petites maîtresses) of King Louis XV of France, and the model for François Boucher's painting The Blonde Odalisque, also known as The Resting Girl. [1]
Besides being one of the few 18th-century practitioners of gem engraving, she was an acclaimed stage actress in plays staged at her private theaters at Versailles and Bellevue. [4] Some of the artworks made under Pompadour's purview by other hands, notably the 1758 portrait by Boucher of Mme de Pompadour at Her Toilette , can be viewed as ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century French Jews and Category:18th-century French LGBTQ people and Category:18th-century French women The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
This inimitable Parisian elegance established the worldwide reputation of French couture. In the mid-18th century, French women had begun to "pouf" (raise) their hair with pads and pomade and wore oversized luxurious gowns. Bertin used and exaggerated the leading modes of the day, and created poufs for Marie Antoinette with heights up to three ...
Louise de Fontaine was born in Paris, in the parish of Saint-Roch, on 28 October 1706. [1] Her baptism act was as follows: Louise-Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Louis-Guillaume, ecuyer, Seigneur de Fontaine, councillor of the King, commissioner of the Navy and galleys de France and Marie-Anne-Armande Dancourt his wife born on the twenty-eight of October in the Sourdière street on this ...
It includes French painters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "18th-century French women painters" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
This is a list of women artists who were born in France or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.