French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour" at the Portland Art Museum with me on a recent Saturday. We were surrounding ourselves with love. It's love of a certain sort: courtly love ...

The mystique and allure of Madame de Pompadour’s partially mythic legacy ... private collection and at the court. Her interest in art stretched to production–she is also remembered for ...

The title of this magnificent new book—Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain ... strangely elusive—we are afforded a genre painting or portrait of her domestic habits ...

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, between 1748 and 1755, currently at the Louvre Museum. Public Domain Madame de ... at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore ...

From Madame de Pompadour to Jeanne du Barry, these women wielded power in pre-Revolutionary France as companion to the king. This painting of Louis XV and his last mistress Madame du Barry was ...

Madame de Pompadour, the Mistress of Louis XIV, was her era's style-setter. A painting shows her at her vanity table with her mirror, makeup brush and compact, wearing a low-cut gown. The preening ...

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It examines the unprecedented proliferation of physically unstable art in eighteenth-century France, from oil paintings that cracked within ... “Making up Race: Whiteness, Pinkness, and Pompadour,” in ...