Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Maurice-Quentin De La Tour
Standard Name: De La Tour, Maurice-Quentin
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1755: Maurice-Quentin De La Tour painted Madame...
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1755
Maurice-Quentin De La Tour
painted Madame de Pompadour
(the Frenchking
's mistress, and a power in the land) sitting at a large (though extremely elegant) desk surrounded by learned folio volumes.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.