Question

In an oval portrait of this person, she stares directly at the viewer while raising a tiny brush used to apply powder from the box in her other hand. She delicately holds a bow vertically and leans on a golden quiver in a painting in which her plain robes are topped by a leopard skin. A clock atop a bookcase (-5[1])is shown in a mirror in a portrait of this person whose lower left corner features a pile of sheet music near a pair of pens, a pair of pink roses, and a spaniel. This woman was depicted as a gardener and as a (*) coffee-drinking sultana by Carle van Loo (KAR-leh van LOO) and as (-5[1])Diana the Huntress by Jean-Marc Nattier. This “femme savante” holds an open book in a portrait that (-5[1])shows her reclining in a voluminous, rose-patterned turquoise dress. For 10 points–name this patroness of François Boucher and other Rococo artists, the mistress (10[1])of (10[1]0[1])Louis XV. ■END■

ANSWER: Madame de Pompadour [accept either underlined portion of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Grant PeetGlass Onyen: A Knives Out MysteryMaryland B+59-5
Jim FanFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find ThemRutgers Diaspora114-5
Caleb KendrickMaryland AThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs131-5
Vincent DuThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsMaryland A15410
JJ TsaiRutgers DiasporaFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them15510
Emily BussaMaryland B+Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery1550

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2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%50%33%111.33
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