Beau Coops x Romance Was Born

I'd like something in brocade like Boucher's Pompadour mule.

Camile Silk Mule 

François Boucher 'Portrait of Madame de Pompadour'

 Comtesse d'Egmont Pignatelli in Spanish Costume by Alexander Roslin…1731

"1-2 buckle my... Jasmin Silk Sling Back"

Gerard Cornelis van Riebeeck ca 1755 by Mattheus Verheyden

 "Beau Coops X Romance was born"...shoes that look like paintings. 

Adalene Silk Bootie...

available at MO Moda 'Operandi trunk shows Here.

"Madame Pompadour,"

actresses painted by Gainsborough, nymphs by Boucher-" Sarah Mower, of Vogue

 Yes, it's all True- I wasn't there-but I saw the Sun King too- 

 louis xiv, habillé en soleil

“I just wanted to concentrate on this idea of beauty,”Meadham Kirchhoff

Mower quote linked here-and in text, with the review and the collection of Meadham Kirchhoff

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what they wore: a Mitford & a Mistress

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Good Clothes are a matter of Good Health. Nancy Mitford

 Madame de Pompadour by Boucher

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& Pompadour too: Exotic Taste

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Sultane , depicting Madame Pompadour

Charles-André van Loo, 1747

a small ladies writing desk in blue & gold lacquer attributed to Adrien Faizelot-Delorme 

owned by Madame Pompadour-from the book EXOTIC TASTE

(I'd say that's Pompadour Blue) 

still the most delightful biography of Madame Pompadour is by Nancy Mitford. "Apart from Miss Mitford’s special interests in the fun and fashion department, one may admire her most for her power to condense and explain the most complicated events."— The New Statesman

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heart of stone I

The main female ambition is to please and to be loved although pleasure and love don’t last more than ten, fifteen years. Women don’t think about improving their spirit as well as their appearance, they forget that a good soul lasts forever and it is a nice company in the forthcoming years.

madame de pompadour

sculpture of Madame de Pompadour in the Paris garden of Pauline de Rothschild