The Château de Bellevue was a small château built for Madame de Pompadour in 1750. It was constructed on a broad plateau in Meudon, above a slope overlooking the Seine to the east, but was demolished
The Château de Bellevue, in the time of Madame de Pompadour, from the courtyard to the west
The park surrounding the Château de Bellevue (west at the top)
The Château de Bellevue from the South. 18th drawing by Jacques André Portail.
La Toilette de Vénus (1751) by François Boucher (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Alexandrine-Jeanne Le Normant d’Étiolles was the daughter of Madame de Pompadour, the maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She died in childhood.
Portrait by François Boucher from 1749
Contemporary portrait of Alexandrine by François-Hubert Drouais.