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Madame de Pompadour
chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 December 1721
- Died
- 15 April 1764
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Versailles
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Jeanne-Antoinette
- Family name
- Poisson
- Mother
- Madeleine de La Motte
- Occupation
- salonnière, politician, lady-in-waiting, royal mistress
- Position held
- favourite, royal mistress
- Citizenship
- France
- Religion
- Catholicism
- birth name
- Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- depicted by
- Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country
- end of work period
- 1764
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Print Collection, Museo del Prado
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- name in native language
- Madame de Pompadour
- noble title
- Marquess
- start of work period
- 1741
- topic's main category
- Category:Madame de Pompadour
- unmarried partner
- Louis XV of France
- work location
- Paris, Versailles
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