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TitleMadame de Pompadour

Creator nameBoucher, François

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1756

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationAlte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Dj4mX97G5A

Accession numberHUW 18

SubjectsPortrait painting, FrenchKings and rulers--ParamoursCostume--History--18th centuryPainting, Rococo

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Chapter IV: Whose Salon?

Thomas E. Crow

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

THE presence of the new Salon audience presented such an abiding problem for those in authority over French art because of a fundamental contradiction at the heart of academic doctrine: a universalizing conception of artistic value had to be mapped onto a divisive social hierarchy...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.104-133

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23036&redirecttoanchor=78402

Chapter subject tags:Art, French--18th century--ExhibitionsArt criticism--France--History--18th centuryCochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790Painting, French--18th centuryHistory painting, French--18th centuryDiderot, Denis, 1713-1784Crozat, M. (Pierre), 1661-1740Art--Collectors and collecting--France--18th centuryBachaumont, Louis Petit de, 1690-1771Social classes--France--History--18th century

1. The Fabric of Society: Fashion from 1750 to 1789

Aileen Ribeiro

The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750 to 1820

It can hardly be said that any sense of entente cordiale existed between England and France in the period covered by this book; even at times when there were no overt hostilities in Europe...

Author

Aileen Ribeiro

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.33-80

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00308.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22502&redirecttoanchor=78402

Chapter subject tags:Costume--History--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryPortrait painting, French--18th centuryClothing and dress--France--History--18th centuryClothing and dress--Great Britain--History--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryArt and society--France--History--18th centuryEngland--Social life and customs--18th centuryFrance--Social life and customs--18th centuryGainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842Boucher, François, 1703-1770Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793

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