Marquise de Pompadour's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 12 USD to 7,146 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record ...

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The truth is that Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral : the art of living. 15.

Madame de Pompadour did not hold any official authority. But she directed influence, especially in the patronage of the arts, where she became an arbiter of taste, and she exploited Louis XV's ...

Check out images from “A Renaissance Original: Carlo Crivelli” and “Madame de Pompadour, Patron and Printmaker,” both opening Feb. 28 at the Walters.

The Pompadour was originally named after Madame De Pompadour, a mistress of King Louis XV and was fashionable to women during that time period of the 18th century.

We hope you enjoy this article from The Times Literary Supplement, free to subscribers of The Wall Street Journal. Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour, has generally been badly served by ...

MANCY MITFORD has lived happily in the heart of Paris sitter the war. The first novel she wrote there was Love in a Cold Climate; her next, The Blessing, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in ...