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

Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty French

ca. 1770

Not on view

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 — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

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)

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