Pompadour at Her Toilette

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Dimensions

81.2 × 64.9 cm (31 15/16 × 25 9/16 in.) frame: 99.8 x 84.5 cm (39 5/16 x 33 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, gift; to her brother, M de Vandières, later the Marquis de Marigny (by 1781). [Anonymous sale, Maciet and Haro, March 15, 1875, lot 11]. Baron Salomon Albert Anselm de Rothschild, Vienna, (c. 1920s), by descent; to his son Baron Louis de Rothschild, Vienna, sold; through [Wildenstein & Co., Paris]; to Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Pregny, Switzerland, (? - until 1952) sold; through [Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York (1952-1953) sold]; to Charles E. Dunlap (1953-1966), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966. Notes: Much of the Louis de Rothschild collection was confiscated during World War II and recuperated afterwards.