Portrait of Marquise de Pompadour Francois Boucher (1703-1770)
Francois Boucher – Portrait of Marquise de Pompadour
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The French painter Boucher was not very keen on painting portraits. However, he loved to paint a picture of his patroness, Louis XV’s favorite, the Marquise de Pompadour. He began his work with her in 1748. From 1752 Boucher began to live and work in the Louvre (the Marquise de Pompadour herself took care of this). Despite the fact that she was the king’s mistress for only 5 years, she continued to be a person of great influence and connections in France until the death of King Louis XV.
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The French painter Boucher was not very keen on painting portraits. However, he loved to paint a picture of his patroness, Louis XV’s favorite, the Marquise de Pompadour.
He began his work with her in 1748. From 1752 Boucher began to live and work in the Louvre (the Marquise de Pompadour herself took care of this). Despite the fact that she was the king’s mistress for only 5 years, she continued to be a person of great influence and connections in France until the death of King Louis XV. She was a woman of contrasting qualities: she was intelligent, diplomatic, educated, cynical, despotic, and a great deal of influence.
Boucher pleased her by depicting the Marquise on all his canvases with the face of a 20-year-old girl.
Her portraits are the French artist’s works, which can be safely shown to children under the age of 16. All the other works of the painter Boucher are slightly frivolous - he liked to portray naked girls and young men, to paint scenes with an erotic character.
The painting "Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour" - this is her last portrait. For a time the painting with her portrait was housed in Versailles. After the death of the Marquise de Pompadour, the canvas went to her brother.
The portrait depicts an intelligent, educated, tasteful young woman. As seen and tried to portray in all the portraits with her painter Boucher. The Marquise herself admitted that he painted her not as she really is. The portrait is painted with the preservation of all the features of the traditional ceremonial portrait.
The canvas was painted in oil on canvas in 1759. The size of the painting is 130x162 cm.
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