COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1938.217
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Modigliani, Amedeo
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
Italian; 1884-1920
Creator Name-CRT:
Amedeo Modigliani
Title:
Madame Pompadour
Title Type:
preferred
Title:
Madam Pompadour
Title Type:
alternate
View:
full view
Creation Date:
1915
Creation Start Date:
1915
Creation End Date:
1915
Materials and Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Creation Place:
Europe,Italy
Dimensions:
23 7/8 x 19 1/2 in. (60.6 x 49.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1938.217
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection
Inscriptions:
Signed lower right: modiglianiTitled and dated middle left: Madam/Pompadour/1915
Context:
Label text approved 10/94 by Charlie StuckeyAmedeo ModiglianiItalian, 1884-1920; worked in France after 1905'Madame Pompadour,' 1915Oil on canvasJoseph Winterbotham Collection, 1938.217The inscription on the left of this painting identifies the subject as the taste-setting mistress of King Louis XV of France, Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), born Jeanne Antoinette le Normant D'Etoiles. Evidently the feathers on the hat seemed eighteenth-century to Modigliani. This is the only painting in which Modigliani ever alluded to a historical character.
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E14261.TIF
