Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Madame de Pompadour.jpg

Madame de Pompadour
Voting period ends on 10 Aug 2023  at 03:53:59 (UTC)
 * 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:Featured pictures/People/Royalty and nobility
 * Creator: François Boucher


 * Support as nominator – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:53, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * 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)


 * Comment – For artwork, the 'creator' is the artist. The nom said 'unknown'. I have fixed it. Bammesk (talk) 02:55, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 * 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)


 * Comment I've updated the source on the file page. I'm seeing quite a few paintings of her; the van Loo looks like it might have the most EV, as a portrait. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:22, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:04, 10 August 2023 (UTC)