Madame la Marquise de Pompadour
Madame la Marquise de Pompadour is represented here by a single etching, Genie de la Musique, placing her among the amateur printmakers of the eighteenth century whose work drew on the graphic arts of their day. The sheet belongs to a small, focused holding rather than a broad survey of her output, and the technique named for it is etching. As a public-domain archive entry, the material reflects the print culture of the period in which she worked, with any surviving impressions understood as later printings rather than new compositions.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
