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2018/05/02 |
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INTERNET |
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227 |
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18C |
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Maurice Quentin de la Tour’s Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour shows the mistress of King Louis XV in pastels (Credit: Wikimedia)
La Tour’s full-length pastel-pencil portrait of the official chief mistress to Louis XV of France, begun around 1748, is a rumbunctious jungle gym of superfluous pinks that spider across every inch and threaten to suffocate its subject. Here, pink is an energy that vibrates from the sitter to the secular subjects with which Pompadour has surrounded herself – music, astronomy, and literature
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