
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Pompadour at Her Toilette is an oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher from 1750 (with later additions) depicting Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France.
The format of the painting changed several times after its initial creation. It was originally a small, rectangular bust, closely cropped around Pompadour's face. Boucher later enlarged the canvas with several rectangular strips, adding in the surrounding toilette scene. Sometime in the late eighteenth century, the painting was again adjusted to give it an oval format. The expanded composition is significant for its representation of Pompadour in the act of applying her rouge makeup. Further, the addition of rouge makeup connects to popular trends of pink skin at the time. Art historians have interpreted the depiction of makeup in the scene along with the many additions and changes to the composition as an expl…
摘自英文维基百科「Pompadour at Her Toilette」(CC BY-SA 4.0),暂时没有中文条目。