Madame de Pompadour

Painted Pink

A. Cassandra Albinson, Mark Ledbury, Gabriella Szalay , Oliver Wunsch

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Harvard University Art Museums,U.S.
13 September 2022

A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century France

François Boucher’s 1750 half-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour—influential court figure and mistress to King Louis XV—has been the subject of much art historical attention, particularly with regard to gender and representation. Building on that foundation, this volume turns toward an underappreciated aspect of the portrait: the use and significance of the color pink. Four scholarly essays, including one by noted Boucher expert Mark Ledbury, establish a framework that connects Pompadour’s fondness and promotion of the color, Boucher’s artistic association with the color, and developments in the material basis of the color, including its application in other media such as porcelain. This engaging close look offers new ways to understand the portrait, revealing its links to motherhood and sentiment, race and the transatlantic slave trade, and the crosscurrents of natural history and scientific discovery.

Contributions by: Mark Ledbury, Gabriella Szalay, Oliver Wunsch
Edited by: A. Cassandra Albinson
Imprint: Harvard University Art Museums,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9780300263817
ISBN 10: 0300263813
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 13 September 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A. Cassandra Albinson is the Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of European Art and Head of the Division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.