A Voluptuous Taste

French painting in the age of Madame de Pompadour in the FRAME Collections

Initiated by the Portland Museum of Art and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours, this exhibition has taken advantage of the rich FRAME collections to focus on a relatively brief period from about 1745 to 1765, a span of twenty years in the middle of the century corresponding almost exactly to the reign of Madame de Pompadour.

The Exhibition Schedule

  • Tours / France
    Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours

    Oct 11, 2008 - Jan 12, 2009

  • Portland OR / USA
    Portland Art Museum

    Feb 7, 2009 - May 17, 2009

Related Publication

  • The Pleasure of the Taste, French painting at the time of Madame de Pompadour

    Catalogue published for the exhibition initiated by the Portland Museum of Art and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours. It has taken advantage of the rich FRAME collections. Texts by Penelope Hunter-Stiebel - Philippe le Leyzour, and of many other authors.

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