Du Barry

For a delicate infant, lentil powder, better known as Du Barry's

Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

"If they had only called that picture 'Du Barry' instead of

Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous

Then he started on that extravagant period of spectacular drama, which gave to the stage such memorable pictures as "Du Barry," with Mrs. Carter, and "The

The Return of Peter Grimm David Belasco 1892

But Du Barry, who fancied herself an authority on matters of taste, didn't like Fragonard's efforts and returned them to the artist.

The Path of 'Progress' Karen Wilkin 2011

And Mr. Bailey accounts for Du Barry's rejection of the panels.

The Path of 'Progress' Karen Wilkin 2011

He was probably chosen not by Du Barry but by the architect, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, as just one of the bevy of highly skilled craftsmen wood sculptors, bronze casters, gilders needed to realize the luxurious interiors.

The Path of 'Progress' Karen Wilkin 2011

There Du Barry's rejects found a new setting in the artist's cousin's house, the Villa Maubert, and Fragonard painted 10 additional panels to adapt the original cycle to the villa: four over-doors of chubby cupids, four narrow decorative strips with hollyhocks, and two large paintings, "Love Triumphant" and "The Reverie."

The Path of 'Progress' Karen Wilkin 2011

Du Barry was arrested at Louveciennes in 1793 and shortly afterward sent to the guillotine.

Ode to a Lost World Howard Kissel 2009

Hochkirchen; I was the cousin of Madame Du Barry, the French

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Boehmer, the jeweller, first received the order for that famous necklace, which subsequently produced such dreadful consequences, and which was originally meant as a kingly present to the intended Queen, though afterwards destined for Du Barry, had not the King died before the completion of the bargain for it.

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