Alliance of Austria and France, from Madame de Pompadour's ""Suite of Prints""

ca. 1756

23.8 cm 37 cm

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Madame de Pompadour commemorated the 1756 alliance between France and Austria by commissioning an allegorical agate cameo. In Pompadour’s etching of this cameo, subtle pictorial and compositional modifications to the original carved gem make meaningful changes. On the cameo, t...

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Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, ca. 1755. Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1895; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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