Sargent & Paris,' at the Met, is the moving story of an ambitious young painter prior to his co-option by the ruling class.

ART21: Was there a portrait or artist you were thinking about when you were working on this piece [Untitled (#193)]? SHERMAN: I think she was inspired by the idea of an older Madame de Pompadour or ...

After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ...

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. The other ...

Madame de Pompadour was the most influential mistress of Louis XV. Even though having influence over a king was no small deal, there is more to De Pompadour than just that role. “The power of ...

(The Wallace Collection is prolific in both). In his Londonian tones, Perry recalls at some point in his youth, as ‘a nascent transvestite’, falling for the Boucher portrait of de Pompadour. The ...

Madame de Pompadour didn't just share King Louis XV's bed, she also shared his power. As the most commanding mistress in the French court, she bettered the lives of many and became a beloved ...

the artist recalls being struck by this dichotomy as a young artist when seeing the Collection’s famous portrait of Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher (1703-1770). Historically rigid gender roles ...

Perry’s fascination with the collection’s extremes—the frothy Rococo femininity of Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour clashing against the ... Through imagined ancestral portraits and Old Master pastiches, ...

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Additionally, Perry’s childhood love of François Boucher’s Portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1759) – which is part of the collection of the Wallace – has been said to have inspired a lot of Perry’s ...