Sunday, July 17, 2011

Yay or Nay? Madame Pompadour

It's a Yay or Nay first.  For once we are split right down the center and cannot come to a decision of whether Lady Egremont is in or out.  To be honest I am a little stunned!  However, this week I think we shall have no trouble deciding whether we like this selection or not!


François-Hubert Drouais paints Jeanne Antoinette Poisson in a warm grey day dress and small straw hat.  Yay or Nay?

[Chateau de Champs-sur-Marne]

30 comments:

  1. YAY! I love it! It's simple, subtle, and sweet. The colour of the dress is soft enough so that it doesn't overwhelm her, which allows you to really notice her coy expression and flirty posture.

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  2. Oh, yay by all means. The combination of dove and pink is lovely and her bodice holds her like a velvet cloud. The angle of chin and wrists completes a most charming picture!

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  3. Yay, yay, yay!

    I also like that her face isn't as ideaqlized as usual. :)

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  4. Yay. Love that dress!

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  5. The ever-fashionable Marquise gets a Yay from me, I love the simplicity of this outfit.

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  6. The gown is wonderful, but the hat looks a little awkward to me. I don't know if it's the angle or what, but it looks off.

    Still, the gown is so supremely stylish (love the gut of the bodice!) that it still gets a big YAY!

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  7. Have always loved that dress, but the hat still sucks. So a big YAY for the dress and would someone please paint over that silly hat? Looks like she lifted it from a child.

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  8. ...and that should be 'cut' not gut. Of course.

    Stupid butter fingers.

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  9. I love the gown (but agree about the hat). Yay!

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  10. It's a yay for me because she's one of my favorite mistress :)

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  11. Yes! Lovely gown, hat is tiny, obviously a nod to fashion, but really, a straw tea cup sized doily?!

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  12. A trifle taken aback by the hat, but the rest is a Yay!

    ~Lylassandra

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  13. Love love love the dress---shame about the hat. Yay!

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  14. I love the dress, but I agree with what people are saying about her hat. It's a Yay for me :)

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  15. Yay for sure. I love the color of it and the under color that shows slightly. Its just lovely.

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  16. I think this is very beautiful. Nice buttons on the dress, and wonderful colour!
    -Yea-

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  17. Yay for the dress (beautiful!) Nay on the hat.

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  18. A most definite yay for such an elegant and simple dress with just the right amount of ruffles!

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  19. Yay! I do like the outfit, but the divine Madame the Pompadour makes me so partial I would always say yay no matter what.

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  20. Is it just me, or does she look a little like Rebekah Brooks?

    Anyway, it looks like the 18th-century version of an old shirt and sweatpants- something comfortable to be worn around the house, but not in public. That rather intense-looking statue behind her is also very off-putting. NAY.

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  21. Yay ,or a emphatic French OUAIS!!!

    Madame Pompadour was never painted in an unflattering way. She was the quintessential Maitresse en titre and of flawless style!

    Drouais was a fabulously gifted painter. Notice the flower protruding from her voluptuous decollete. She is Nature personified.

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  22. With this simple, yet elegant dress,she looks very sweet and calm, yet stylish. Yay, love her!

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  23. I could do without the hat. It looks a bit out of place and awkward. The dress is absolutely lovely, though. It's simple but really beautiful. Yay!

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  24. Her hair is pulled back extremely tight for that time period, and her hat is ridiculously small and perched too far back on her head...but because of the dress I say yay.

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  25. Nay. I don't know why but I just can't find it in me to like it =/

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  26. Yay for the color choice and gown. Nay for the absurdly small hat.

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  27. Yay for the color choice and gown. Nay for the absurdly small hat.

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  28. Yay for the gown, but as for that ridiculous hat - I fear some band member is missing a cymbal and poor Ms. Pompadour is doing her best to keep it balanced on her head.

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