Madame de PompadourFrench, 1721–1764Barn puster sæbebobler
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Not on view at present
Where is “Barn puster sæbebobler” now? Collection: SMK — National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Copenhagen, Denmark
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- KKSgb29001
In the catalog
Sources
- SMK
- Image: SMK — National Gallery of Denmark — public domain
In the life of Madame de Pompadour
The whole life1745–1750 · Residence
Appartement de la marquise de Pompadour
1746–1757 · Residence
Château de Crécy
c. 1750
The role of “friend of the King”
Around 1750, on her doctors' advice, the marquise stops spending nights in the King's bedroom and their relationship becomes platonic; to keep her influence she takes on the role of “friend of the King” and announces it through art, commissioning from Jean-Baptiste Pigalle a sculpture of herself as Friendship.
1750s
Under her patronage: Boucher, Réveillon and Drouais
Pompadour patronizes sculptors and portrait painters, among them the court artist Jean-Marc Nattier and, in the 1750s, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and François-Hubert Drouais, and makes Paris the perceived capital of taste and culture in Europe.
12 October 1752
Elevated to duchess
On 12 October 1752 the marquise is elevated to the rank of duchess.
