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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.
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
Pompadour at Her Toilette (1750), Harvard Art Museums [22] Sketch for a Portrait of Madame de Pompadour (c.1750), Waddesdon Manor [23] The Bird Has Flown (1765), Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN [24] The Interrupted Sleep (1750), Metropolitan Museum of Art [25] The Love Letter (1750), National Gallery of Art [26]
The work was commissioned from the painter by his benefactor, the marquise de Pompadour, the influential lover of king Louis XV, for the vestibule of her the Château de Bellevue. [1] It served as a pendant to the Bath of Vénus , today held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington .
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]
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 collaborations with Pompadour. [4] Madame de Pompadour is considered an amateur printmaker who made print engravings with the help of Boucher. [4]
Pompadour was Boucher's patroness from 1747 until her death in 1764. [1] Brimborion beside the Seine (below right) and the Château de Bellevue (above centre) The Château de Bellevue is an important step in the evolution of the French château. It was a relatively modest building, more like a house of a rich nobleman than a royal château ...
Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame; Madame Pompadour (1927 film) ... Pompadour at Her Toilette; Portrait of Madame de Pompadour; The Postman from Longjumeau; R.