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Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (/ ˈ p ɒ m p ə d ʊər /, French: [pɔ̃paduʁ] ⓘ; 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court. She was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favourite until her death ...
François Boucher: English: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), known as Madame de Pompadour at Her Toilette Français : Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), dite Madame de Pompadour à sa toilette Artist
A scion of a family of officials from Orléans, his father was Hervé-Guillaume Le Normant du Fort, trésorier général des Monnaies.His uncle was the financier Le Normant de Tournehem in 1741, a tax farmer [1] and legal guardian of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson.
Alexandrine-Jeanne Le Normant d’Étiolles was born on 10 August 1744 to Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d’Étiolles and his wife Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson.She was named after her mother’s friend, author and salon host Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin. [1]
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, better known as Madame de Pompadour, was the most famous and influential of the mistresses of Louis XV. She was the illegitimate daughter of a Paris fermier-general , and was married to a banker, Charles Guillaume Lenormant d'Étoiles .
It was during this costume ball that Louis XV, who was dressed as a yew tree, met Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson d'Étiolles, who was costumed as Diana, goddess of the hunt. Jeanne-Antoinette, who became Louis XV's mistress, is better known to history as the Marquise de Pompadour.
Madame de Pompadour at Her Toilette by Boucher (1758). She is wearing Guay's cameo of Louis XV on her wrist. After Guay returned to France the king's mistress Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour, an artist in her own right, installed him in her apartment in the Palace of Versailles and charged him with making engravings in gemstones of the main events and characters of the reign. [6]
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750), Harvard Art Museums [8] The Interrupted Sleep (1750), Metropolitan Museum of Art [9] The Toilette of Venus (1751), Metropolitan Museum of Art [10] Shepherd Boy Playing Bagpipes (c. 1754), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [11] Landscape with a Watermill (1755), National Gallery [12]