Marie-Antoinette in Art

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Here is a picture I found on Anna Amber's site, along with some interesting information.http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/11584753502

Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1755-1793), three-quarter-length, seated, at the Conciergerie, Paris, in mourning, with a cameo pendant portraying the Dauphin, holding a life of Mary, Queen of Scots, a bust of Louis XVI and the Testament of 23 December 1792 on the draped table beside inscribed ‘HIS.DE LA.M. DE STUAR[T]’ (lower centre, on the book)

I never knew she was reading a book about Mary Queen of Scots.

A portrait of Marie Antoinette sitting on a sofa, attributed to Louis-Charles Gauthier d’Agoty. From Vive la Reine. http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/19905642530

From Melanie's site. http://madameguillotine.org.uk/2012/03/20/marie-antoinette-sequel-progress/

A portrait of herself that Marie-Antoinette did not care for.

I don't really care for it that much myself. It looks too cold. Notwithstanding her dignity, Marie-Antoinette seems to have been a person full of life and warmth.

From Vive la Reine http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/21117992126:


A portrait of Marie Antoinette in riding habit by Vincenza Benzi-Bastéris, 1784.

May, 1770

From Vive la Reine: http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/22140324675



A picture of Marie-Antoinette with coronet and veil.

From Vive la Reine:
Marie-Antoinette portrayed in classical apparel in an early 18th cent. print made for her daughter. She is holding the lilies of France, with her arm around a vase with a portrait of her husband Louis XVI. On the pillar beside her are two floral crowns, one of lilies representing purity and one of roses representing martyrdom.

http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/23128624066

Marie-Antoinette and Rosalie on the morning of the Queen's execution.

From Vive la Reine:

http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/22936921157

From Vive la Reine:


Marie-Antoinette in the gardens with one of her children. (Remember that they dressed toddler boys like girls in those days.

From Vive la Reine:
http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/24651180698

Terrible.



http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/archives/7078

Yes. Let's counteract it with a happy picture of Marie-Antoinette at Trianon.


http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/26236243734

And I love this:

http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2012/07/queen-and-artist.html

It is MA picking up the brushes for a very pregnant Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun.

A bust of the Queen:

http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/27579499448

A miniature of the young Antoinette.
http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/29863886086