# Bust of Madame de Pompadour [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIGALLE, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble, height 76 cm ## Commentary The portrait was completed in 1751 when Madame de Pompadour was thirty years old. It was probably meant for her residence château de Bellevue, which was finished the same year. She chose the stone for the bust, a hard and brittle marble, with the intention of promoting the use of local French materials. This piece was the first to be made of the white marble from the newly discovered quarry of Sost in the French Pyrenees. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Madame de Pompadour]() - [Bust of Voltaire]() - [Bust of Voltaire]() - [Child with a Birdcage]() - [Child with a Birdcage]() - [Child with Birdcage]() - [Madame de Pompadour as Friendship]() - [Madame de Pompadour as Friendship]() - [Mausoleum of the Maréchal de Saxe \(detail\)]() - [Mausoleum of the Maréchal de Saxe \(detail\)]() - [Mausoleum of the Maréchal de Saxe]() - [Mausoleum of the Maréchal de Saxe]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()