Accession number
PML 1919
Published
[France] : [s.n.], [1745-1764]
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
1 volume (binding)
Notes
Title tooled in gilt on front cover.
Date based upon activity of the Marquise de Pompadour, official mistress of Louis XV from 1745-51 and active at court until her death in 1764.
Identified as a portefeuille, intended to contain documents relating
Date based upon activity of the Marquise de Pompadour, official mistress of Louis XV from 1745-51 and active at court until her death in 1764.
Identified as a portefeuille, intended to contain documents relating
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco for Pompadour.
Provenance
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), armorial binding (not in her library catalog; see Femmes bibliophiles de France, II: 89, no. 128); sold by Ch. Read (Paris), about 1885 (see Maze-Sencier, Livre des collectionneurs, p. 372); Je
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