Such is the staggering, far out universe of "La volupte du gout: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour," the overwrought new show of 18th-century French painting at the Portland Art ...

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 Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the ...

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 ...

Ten years after this portrait, Madame du Barry opened a window of her chateau ... five years after the death of her predecessor, Madame de Pompadour. Her arrival caused a tremendous scandal.

The title of this magnificent new book—Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain—on a familiar, indeed almost clichéd subject is intriguing and intentionally paradoxical.

Pompadour was a patron of artists — their chief customer — says Wager: "She would give them money to make paintings and have them put in her houses so people could see them there." And ...

Of this appalling pair, du Barry was far the more loathsome ... Admission daily 10am-5.15pm, tickets £7, until 12 January. The Art of Love: Madame de Pompadour and the Wallace Collection ...

Unlike her successors, Madame du Barry and Marie Antoinette ... The truth is that Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it ...