Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse Du Barry, Being Offered a Cup of Coffee by Zamor
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Seated at her dressing table, Madame Du Barry, the royal mistress, appears just as the British travel writer Henry Swinburne saw her when he visited her at Versailles on April 30, 1774. He reported climbing "up a dark winding staircase, which I should have suspected would have led to an apartment of the Bastile [sic], rather than to the temple of love and elegance. In a low entresol we found the favourite sultana in her morning gown . . . and her hair undressed."
Artwork Details
- Title: Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse Du Barry, Being Offered a Cup of Coffee by Zamor
- Artist: Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty (French, Paris 1740–1786 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1770
- Medium: Color mezzotint on paper printed from four plates
- Dimensions: Without frame: 14 3/8 × 11 15/16 in. (36.5 × 30.3 cm)
With frame: 23 7/8 × 19 3/4 × 13/16 in. (60.7 × 50.1 × 2 cm) - Classification: Engravings
- Credit Line: Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (INV.GRAV 6677)
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts