The painting reconfigures the motifs and, true to mondaine ideals, pictures Pompadour through artful indirection and allusion as artist and artwork.
That was just achieved by the enthusiastic participants, the solid organisation and the mondaine ambiance of Biarritz.
Corresponding to the collateral social and aesthetic concerns over distinctions of class and genre were additional anxieties about the erosion of gender distinctions in mondaine culture and art.
It is the sophisticated, mondaine, civilised and generally rather unmilitary Germany described so well in this book.
It thematizes the relationship among the toilette, painting, and self-representation, and defines that relationship as a matter of mondaine values rather than as a matter of femininity.