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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
Her grave was inscribed, ‘Here lies Alexandrine-Jeanne, daughter of Messire Charles-Guillaume Le Normant and Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, Dame de Crécy, etc’. [17] Pompadour often visited the grave to pray. [18] [19] The remains of her maternal grandmother, Madeleine de La Motte, were also taken there, and Pompadour ...
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour was the goddaughter of Jean Paris de Monmartel. Her father had worked as a clerk to the Paris brothers, and this special relationship allowed him to gradually take control over the key areas of the country's policy.
Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem (30 December 1684– 27 November 1751) was a French financier, a fermier-général, or tax-farmer. He is best known for his connection with Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (1721–1764), future marquise de Pompadour. Her legal guardian from 1725, after her official father was forced to leave the country ...
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.
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]
Non-noble by birth, Abel-François Poisson de Vandières was raised in a family of Parisian financiers. When his elder sister, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson became, in 1745, the official mistress of Louis XV and was given the title "marquise de Pompadour", she had him follow her to the court, where the young man attracted the favours of the king.