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Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse Du Barry, Being Offered a Cup of Coffee by Zamor

Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899

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."

Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse Du Barry, Being Offered a Cup of Coffee by Zamor, Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty (French, Paris 1740–1786 Paris), Color mezzotint on paper printed from four plates

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