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Original – Madame de Pompadour and a dog at her feet; by François Boucher (1703–1770), 1756
Reason
Very good resolution and transparency.
Note: The painting belongs to 1756 and, for this reason, maybe some white dots plus a ghostly horizontal line on nearly top need correction and technical editing.
Articles in which this image appears
1756 in art, Art of Europe, Courtier, History of art, Madame de Pompadour, Rococo, Work of art; also: Alte Pinakothek, Novel, Wildenstein & Company, Portal:Novels
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Royalty and nobility
Creator
François Boucher
  • Support as nominatorHamid Hassani (talk) 03:53, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This gives me the opportunity to raise a question I had, which is whether the picture really needs correction? Those may be paint loss and defects in the painting as it currently is, rather than defects in the photograph of the painting. Especially given that the painting is used in art articles, shouldn't we reproduce the painting, rather than trying to "correct" it as we might do with some illustrations for articles? It seems that a reproduction of a painting should represent the painting and be clearly labeled in the article caption if it's been "improved".--Jahaza (talk) 23:22, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
We usually don't restore paintings, particularly when the digital reproduction is high quality and the source is reliable (for example the museum that houses the painting). There are instances when we have touched up noncontroversial, and usually minor, abnormalities (for example, borders of a painting), i.e. when doing so is common sense. That's my experience at FPC. Bammesk (talk) 02:51, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to express my gratitude to you here regarding fixing the creator's name. — Hamid Hassani (talk) 08:24, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:04, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]