Frontispiece, from Madame de Pompadour's ""Suite of Prints""

ca. 1755

23.8 cm 37 cm

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The frontispiece for Madame de Pompadour’s Suite of Prints pays homage to the royal mistress and to the tradition of collecting carved gems. A banner emblazoned with the title of the Suite is suspended from a fluted classical column. Floating above, two winged putti compete fo...

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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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