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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.
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.
He was born at Montagnac in Gascony.He received a military education and went to Paris in 1748 to study mathematics.He led a dissipated life and endeavoured to curry favor with Madame de Pompadour by secretly sending her a box of poison and then informing her of the supposed plot against her life, hoping that he could earn a reward of cash for warning her.
Jacques Guay (1711–1793) was a French gemstone engraver, a protégé of Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of King Louis XV of France (1710–74). He was the most eminent gemstone engraver of his time, the official engraver of the king, and produced many cameo and intaglio engravings in semi-precious stones such as onyx, jasper and carnelian.
Articles relating to Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751. Subcategories.
[2] She is described as loyal and dutiful, and played an important role at court as the intermediary between the influential Madame de Pompadour and her many supplicants. She is known for her famous memoirs, describing her time at the French court, which were first published in 1824 and considered a valuable source of the life of Madame de ...
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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 suggests, however, that it was made at least 10 years later as an autonomous work.