Paris, Jacques Beauvarlet, (ca. 1771). Mezzotint engraving by Jacques Beauvarlet (1731 - 1797) after a painting made in ca. 1754 by Charles-André (Carle) van Loo (1705-1765). Ca. 48,5 x 36,5 cm During the first half of the 18th century, the European nobility (and later also the wealthy bourgeoisie) developed a taste for the exotic and Oriental. The picture shows Madame Pompadour (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, 1721-1764, mistress of Louis XV) as "Sultana" in Ottoman costume seated on a cushion on the left, with long smoking pipe in her right hand, the black servant is passing her coffee. - (Small stain in left corner, under passepartout, mounted). - Fine image.