この作品は ブーシェ （François Boucher, 1703年9月29日 - 1770年5月30日）の作品で
1752年に14才のマリー＝ルィーズ ( Marie-Louise O'Murphy ) をモデルにして描かれたものです。全裸でベッドの中で刺激的な、放埒なポーズを採っているのは、ある目的があったからでした。この絵はルイ15世を誘惑するために、淫らな意図の下に描かれたのでした。彼女は靴製造会社役員の五番目の娘で、見事王の愛人となり子供までもうけています。この絵の溢れ出る妖しさは、描かれた目的が少女を王に見初めさせようとする、精一杯の企ての賜です。
マリー＝ルイーズ・オミュルフィ（Marie-Louise O'Murphy, 1737年10月21日? - 1814年12月11日）はフランス王ルイ15世の愛人の1人。フランスのルーアンで生まれたアイルランド人兵士の娘といわれている。 (このあたり情報が錯そうしている。)
父の死後、母親は家族を連れてパリに出たが、オミュルフィはヌード画のマネキンとして働いていた。1752年、フランソワ・ブーシェが描いた裸体画が評判になると、オミュルフィはルイ15世の 公妾 ポンパドゥール夫人 が開設したという娼館鹿の園に招かれ、ルイ15世に性的奉仕を行ったという。
ルイ15世との間に夭逝の女子と一人の男子をもうけたが、男子は将校に取り立てられ、後にベリュイゥイ将軍を名乗ったという。鹿の園での性的奉仕は原則として短期間とされたため、彼女自身は鹿の園を出て良縁を紹介され、年金支給を受けて余生を送ったが、フランス革命期間中は投獄されたこともあったと伝えられている。
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以下は英語版の記述
Marie-Louise O'Murphy de Boisfaily (Rouen, 21 October 1737 – Paris, 11 December 1814) was one of the younger mistresses of King Louis XV of France. Her original surname is also given in sources as Murphy, Morphy, or O'Morphy, and she is sometimes referred to as "La Morphise" or "La Belle Morphise". Her life was dramatised by Duncan Sprott in his 1997 novel Our Lady of the Potatoes.
She was the seventh and youngest child of Daniel O’Murphy de Boisfaily, an Irish officer who had taken up shoemaking in Rouen, France, and his wife Marguerite Igny. After the death of her father in 1753, her mother brought the family to Paris.[1]
In his Histoire de ma vie (vol. 3, chap. 11), Giacomo Casanova relates that he found her "a pretty, ragged, dirty, little creature" of thirteen years in the house of her actress sister. Struck by her beauty when seeing her naked, however, he had a nude portrait of her painted, with the inscription "O-Morphi" (punning her name with Modern Greek ὄμορφη, "beautiful"), a copy of which found its way to the King, who took her as one of his mistresses.[2] (This portrait is apparently not to be identified with the memorable and provocative portrait by François Boucher, though Casanova's description indicates that the poses were similar.)
She quickly became a favourite, and, after a miscarriage in 1753 (which apparently deeply affected the King),[3] she gave birth to Louis XV's illegitimate daughter, Agathe Louise de Saint-Antoine, born in Paris on 20 May 1754 and baptized that same day at Saint-Paul. At the age of 19, Agathe married René Jean de la Tour du Pin, marquis de la Charce (born Paris, 26 July 1750), at the Parisian Convent of the Visitation. But Agathe died after only nine months of marriage, on 6 September 1774, as consequence of a miscarriage. Her widower remarried and had a son, but died young in 1781.
After serving as a mistress to the King for just over two years, O'Murphy made a mistake that was common for many courtesans, that of trying to replace the official mistress. Around 1754, she unwisely tried to unseat the longtime royal favorite, Madame de Pompadour. This ill-judged move quickly resulted in O'Murphy's downfall at court. A marriage was arranged to Jacques Pelet de Beaufranchet, seigneur d'Ayat (born 5 March 1728), which took place on 27 November 1755 in Paris. From this union, the former royal mistress had two children: the first one, a daughter, Louise Charlotte Antoinette Françoise (born 30 October 1756 - died 6 February 1759), died in infancy. Jacques de Beaufranchet was killed in action on 5 November 1757, at the battle of Rossbach, seventeen days before the birth of their second child, a son, Louis Charles Antoine Pelet (born 22 November 1757 - died 2 July 1812), the later comte de Beaufranchet and General under the Republic.
Two years later, on 19 February 1759 at Riom, O'Murphy married again to François Nicolas Le Normant, comte de Flaghac (born 13 September 1725), a widower with three children. From this union, O'Murphy gave birth to a daughter, Marguerite Victoire (born 5 January 1768 - died 1814), who, according to one theory, could be another illegitimate daughter of Louis XV.[4]
François Le Normant died on 24 April 1783. Twelve years later, on 19 June 1795, O'Murphy married again. Her new husband was Louis-Philippe Dumont (born 17 November 1765 - died 11 June 1853), twenty-eight years younger than her. This union quickly failed, and after almost three years, they divorced on 16 March 1798. O'Murphy never married again.
During the French Revolution, O'Murphy was imprisoned because of her royal connections, but she survived the Reign of Terror and many years of political turmoil. She died in 1814 at the age of 77.
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