Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, between 1748 and 1755, currently at the Louvre Museum. Public Domain Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the ...

Now from aide reading and the liveliest observation she has drawn her gay, enchanting portrait of Madame de Pompadour, which is to be published by Random House hue this spring and from which the ...

The portrait, in the collection of the National ... five years after the death of her predecessor, Madame de Pompadour. Her arrival caused a tremendous scandal. The king was in his late 50s.

"After us, the deluge," Madame de Pompadour is reported ... No greater impertinence was ever painted than the portrait by Drouais of Pompadour as a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of virginity.

However, his most famous portrait of the royal mistress, Pompadour at Her Toilette, sits inside the Fogg Museum at Harvard Madame de Pompadour influenced decorative arts and architecture in the ...

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 ...

It was 1745, and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the pretty young woman who would become Marquise de Pompadour, had been invited to a masked ball at Versailles. If this sounds like a chance meeting ...

She succeeded and became as famous as her paramour but far more reviled—primarily because Pompadour actively sought ... is a comprehensive but detached portrait that provides plenty of food ...

He had not one moment to himself, but sent various friends to call on Madame de Pompadour at her uncle’s house. During the great banquet at the Hôtel de Ville she and her family dined upstairs ...