Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour

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Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour
1721-1764
Frontispiece of Corneille's Rodogune
Engraving.
12 x 8 1/2 inches (305 x 216 mm)
Purchased from Francisque LeFrançois (Libraire de la Société des bibliophiles françois), Paris, 1927.
III, 104a
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Engraved frontispiece for the 1760 edition of the play, etched by Mme. de Pompadour after Boucher's drawing (III, 104a), retouched and finished by Charles Nicolas Cochin.

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Acquired in 1927 from Francisque LeFrançois (Libraire de la Société des bibliophiles françois), Paris.
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Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de
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French
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18th century
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