1761
Portrait of Abel-François Poisson, Marquis de Marigny (1727 - 1781)
Johann Georg WilleGerman (active France), 1715 - 1808
Madame de Pompadour used her influence to have her brother Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny, named director of the King's Buildings (Bâtiments du roi). Here Marigny is shown unfurling architectural plans for the École Militaire, a military academy for worthy young men of the nobility founded in Paris by Louis XV in 1751 at the urging of Madame de Pompadour.
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