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François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour
1756
Canvas, 201 x 157 cm
Acquired in 1971, Collection of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel- Bank
Inv.-Nr. HUW 18
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| Four years after her marriage to Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Etioles in 1745, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson became the mistress of Louis XV. Owing to her intellectual propensity, which impressed the king, she soon attained an elevated position at court: the climax of which was her being named on February 7, 1756 as the queen's lady-in-waiting (dame du palais). To commemorate the occasion a combination private and official portrait was painted by Boucher. |
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