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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 marveled at how closely it imitated the painting it reproduced. The philosopher Denis Diderot wrote: “My word, if anyone standing four feet away is able to distinguish between the painting and the tapestry, I would give him both of them.”
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