Painted in 1756 by François Boucher, “Madame de Pompadour” has an exceptional place in the career of the artist, whose colorful Rococo oeuvre is known for celestial and pastoral pageantry ...

Kronthaler said her dress was inspired by François Boucher's painting of Madame de Pompadour from 1759. "Vivienne would have loved it - it was her favorite dress of all time," he added.

Francois Boucher "Apollo Revealing his Divinity before the Shepherdess Isse," 1750. On Saturday, ... "La volupte du gout: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour." ...

Did Madame de Pompadour lose the French Empire? In 1756, King Louis XV's notorious mistress helped spark the disastrous conflict that led to its demise by championing France's break with Protestant ...

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Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, may be best known as King Louis XV's chief mistress. But she was also a well-educated tastemaker, a patron of the arts and an artist in her own right.

Madame Pompadour, by Francois Boucher Wikimedia Commons The mystique and allure of Madame de Pompadour’s partially mythic legacy has attracted the attention of generations of historians and the ...

Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Nicolas Lancret, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, ... Madame de Pompadour did not hold any official authority.

François Boucher was the near-perfect embodiment of the rococo spirit. He painted several likenesses of Madame de Pompadour and, thanks to her influence, he became court painter to Louis XV.