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Exhibitions: Madame de Pompadour et les arts. Musees des chateaux de Versailles et des Trianons, Versailles, France (14 February-19 May 2002); subsequently shown at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany (14 June-15 September 2002). Catalogue: Xavier Salmon, Helge Seifert, Humphrey Wine eds. Madame de Pompadour et les arts (Paris: Reunion des Musees nationaux, 2002). Pp. 544, 227 entries, all illustrated in color, euro59.50 soft cover; reedited with corrections and additions in German, Madame de Pompadour und die Kunste (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2002). Pp. 439, 221 entries, all illustrated in color; and exhibited in modified form with a different title and different accompanying publication as: Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress. National Gallery of Art, London (16 October 2002-12 January 2003). Accompanying book with checklist of objects in the exhibition: Colin Jones, Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress (London: National Gallery Company distributed by Yale University Press, 2002), 176 pages, $35 hardcover. Simultaneous but entirely independent exhibition: The Art of Love: Madame de Pompadour and The Wallace Collection. The Wallace Collection, London (9 October, 2002-5 January, 2003). No catalogue. Other recent related exhibitions: jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724-1806), Peintre du Roi et de Madame de Pompadour (Versailles, Musee Lambinet, 23 November, 1999-19 March, 2000). Catalogue: Helene Mouradian, ed. Versailles, Musee Lambinet, 1999. Falconet a Sevres ou l'art de plaire. Sevres, Musee national de Ceramique (6 November, 2001-4 February 2002). Catalogue. Marie-Noelle Pinot de Villechenon ed., Paris, Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux, 2001.
Scholarly Publications and journal articles since 2000:
Andrea Weisbrod, Von Macht und Mythos der Pompadour: Die Matressen im politischen Gefuge des franzosischen Absolutismus (Konigstein/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2000), 328 pages, 16 b/w illus.; Elise Goodman, The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) 188 pages, 8 color and 75 b/w illus.; Melissa Hyde, "The 'Makeup' of the Marquise: Boucher's Portrait of Pompadour at Her Toilette," The Art Bulletin, 82:3 (September 2000), 453-475; Alden R. Gordon, "The Longest Enduring Pompadour Hoax: Senac de Meilhan and the Journal de Madame du Hausset," in Elise Goodman, ed., Art and Culture in the Eighteenth Century: New Dimensions and Multiple Perspectives (Newark and London: Associated University Presses, 2001), 28-38; Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Pompadour's Touch: Difference in Representation," Representations...