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Article: The marquise de Pompadour visits London.(National Gallery exhibition 'Mme de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress')
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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The National Gallery's exhibition, Mme de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress, is a thinner and not only thinner but shallower version of last Spring's Exhibition at Versailles, more pertinently called Mine de Pompadour et les Arts. The rustic pleasantry of the National Gallery's subtitle befits the stance of both its exhibition and its accompanying picture-book which, unlike the serious and substantial French catalogue, is a popularist and contentious account of the marquise's life and times. One would suppose that people visiting an exhibition are acquainted with its subject. The National Gallery has curtailed the visual display at Versailles. All that it has added, or ...
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Article: Madame de Pompadour. (Report from Europe).
The Magazine Antiques;
November 1, 2002 ;
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... ... London are devoted to Madame de Pompadour. The first, on view at ... The Art of Love: Madame de Pompadour and The Wallace Collection ... second exhibition is at the National Gallery. Entitled Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress ...
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