Madame de Pompadour – Antique Wall Art
![Madame de Pompadour, [between 1900? and 1950] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1ee99c90f9b9-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Madame de Pompadour, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Madame de Pompadour
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Few sitters of the eighteenth century were painted as often as Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the marquise de Pompadour, and this print reproduces one of those portraits, though the record does not name the original artist. Born in 1721 to a middle-class Parisian family, she became the official mistress of Louis XV around 1745 and held real influence over court appointments, politics and the arts. She was a major patron of painters such as François Boucher and of the Sèvres porcelain manufactory, and her taste helped shape the Rococo style. Photoprints like this one, made between 1900 and 1950, let students and collectors study such court portraits long after many of the originals had moved into private hands or museums.
| Created / published | [between 1900? and 1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait paintings Reproductions 1900-1950.Photographic prints 1900-1950. |
| Notes | Photoprint of painting(?) No. 37485. |
| Subjects | Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson,--marquise de,--1721-1764. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,255 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182527 |
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