Allegorical Figure of a Woman Representing ""Painting""
This tapestry, which depicts a woman at an easel personifying Painting, belonged to Madame de Pompadour. A subtle comment on exchange between media, the work represents one medium (painting) in a different medium (tapestry). When the tapestry was exhibited in 1765, critics mar...
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Commissioned (?) by Madame de Pompadour; inherited by the Marquis de Marigny, 1764; sale of the Marquis de Marigny, Paris, March 18-April 6 1782, no. 126; purchased by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, 1782; exhibited at the Exposition d'art français du XVIII siecle, 1910, no. 60; sale of Joseph Bardac, Paris, December 9 1927, no. 135; Guerault, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Paris, 1928; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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4
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/82.5 |
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silk on cotton warp
Genre
tapestries
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