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Madame de Pompadour - Painted Pink (Paperback)
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Madame de Pompadour - Painted Pink (Paperback)
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A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on
the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century
France Francois Boucher's 1750 half-length portrait of Madame de
Pompadour-influential court figure and mistress to King Louis
XV-has been the subject of much art historical attention,
particularly with regard to gender and representation. Building on
that foundation, this volume turns toward an underappreciated
aspect of the portrait: the use and significance of the color pink.
Four scholarly essays, including one by noted Boucher expert Mark
Ledbury, establish a framework that connects Pompadour's fondness
and promotion of the color, Boucher's artistic association with the
color, and developments in the material basis of the color,
including its application in other media such as porcelain. This
engaging close look offers new ways to understand the portrait,
revealing its links to motherhood and sentiment, race and the
transatlantic slave trade, and the crosscurrents of natural history
and scientific discovery. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums
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