Marquise de Pompadour, c.1749/55 by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Canvas Print - 16981-LTM
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, FranceOriginal Size: 175 x 128 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $55.52 USD
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Painting Information
The execution of this portrait in pastel, exceptional in both scale and quality, cost Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788) three years of work. Madame de Pompadour is seated in her salon, surrounded by objects that symbolise her role as patron of the arts - literature, music, astronomy, engraving. She herself made etchings, sometimes retouched with a chisel - as evidenced by the plaque on the right, which bears Pompadour sculpsit.
Leonardo da Vinci used the pastel from its inception and described it as 'a way of colouring dry'. This paste was obtained from finely crushed dyes mixed with resin, in tones of innumerable shades (more than one thousand six hundred exist), and was probably brought to Italy from France. It is a soft and very fine material which allows the colours to be muted, obliterated, reapplied or overlaid. In the eighteenth century its success was enormous. Some artists, such as Quentin de La Tour, worked only in pastel; many others used it for life sketches and portraits. Quentin de La Tour was admitted a member of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1746. He imposed himself as a portrait painter of the royal family and of prominent figures in the ruler's entourage; he was able to convey the psychology of his models with subtle insight, capturing fleeting emotions. For formal portraits, such as that of the Marquise, he paints the head in the presence of the model on a round sheet of paper, which he attaches to the composition. In pastel, large sizes are rare, but de La Tour's skill and virtuosity are of such a class that he achieves perfection both in the rendering of the silk dress embroidered with gold, the lace and velvet, and in the exquisite sculpting of the face and the delicate softness of the skin.