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Frontispiece, from Madame de Pompadour's "Suite of Prints"
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 for the honor of crowning Pompadour’s name with flowers. Below, another putto—in the guise of an antiquarian or connoisseur—carefully inspects the contents of a carved gem cabinet with a magnifying glass.
Provenance
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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.
Exhibitions
| 2016 | Madame de Pompadour, Patron and Printmaker. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Folio H: 14 9/16 × W: 9 3/8 in. (37 × 23.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1895
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
92.548.2
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