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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.
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.
Articles relating to Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751. Subcategories.
Original - Madame de Pompadour, official mistress to Louis XV of France. Memorial portrait finished after her death. Reason Not long ago a few FPC regulars commented about the shortage of women in Wikipedia's featured pictures. So here is one of the leading figures of eighteenth century politics and intellectual life: Madame de Pompadour.
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.
After the King and Madame de Pompadour grew apart, Louis repurchased it in 1757 and had it redesigned by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, adding two wings linked to the main building. After the death of King Louis XV in 1774, the château was transferred to his daughters, Madame Marie Adélaïde, Madame Victoire and Madame Sophie.
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.
Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly (1713–1760), duchess de Lauraguais; Marie-Anne de Mailly (1717–1744), duchess de Châteauroux; Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (better known as Madame de Pompadour) (1721–1764), marquise de Pompadour; Marie-Jeanne Bécu (better known as Madame du Barry) (1743–1793), comtesse de Barry; Louis XVIII of France (1755 ...